In this insightful piece, James K. Glassman of Tech Central Station ran an interesting analysis of U.S. companies that CNN financial commentator Lou Dobbs has criticized on his website and television show as “either sending jobs overseas or choosing to employ cheap foreign labor, instead of American workers.” Mr. Glassman calculated that the annual return for a hypothetical stock fund of these companies over the past year (12 months ending Feb. 23, 2004), was a remarkable 72.44 percent, which compares with a return of 39.11 percent for the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500-Stock Index over the same period.
Outsourcing tech and other white-collar jobs is a common political canard that misguided or disingenuous demagogues promote to frighten voters. Accordingly, we will have to endure a great deal of this drivel over the next several months of this election year.

This NY Times article describes a fascinating situation that has developed regarding a fight for control of the Manchestor United soccer club — the New York Yankees of England professional sports — that also involves a racehorse named Rock of Gibralter and Malcolm Glazer, the owner of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This NY Times article is about Amory B. Lovins, who makes a very good living by telling the oil and gas industry that the demand for oil is likely to tumble more rapidly than the industry has projected. Mr. Lovins then helps the oil and gas companies figure out how they can profit from leading the transition away from today’s main uses of their core product. Interesting reading.