Cell Phone Markets Change Life in Africa

November 17, 2005 11:41 AM by Casey Khan

Here is an awesome AP story explaining how the cell phone market is changing African life for the better. Cell phones are circumventing government controls connecting brokers and consumers more efficiently. Prepaid minutes are a form of currency. Cell phones are adding true wealth to the African capital structure that can't be done with foreign aid and isn't tracked by Keynsian statistics.

"Cell phones slice through all those obstacles and provide African solutions to African problems."

Spitzer Continues Wall Street Purge

May 24, 2004 3:52 PM by Casey Khan

NYAG Eliot Spitzer has sued Dick Grasso former NYSE chief to "recoup" over 100 million in "unjustified" pay.

Now when do the taxpayers of New York get back the extorted and unjustified compensation of public officials like Eliot Spitzer?

Spitzer's purge on Wall Street has become so bad that Mark Haines of CNBC joked, "the government might as well throw all of Wall Street in prison and release anyone they find innocent."

Bartleby.com

March 22, 2004 2:24 PM by Casey Khan

In the spirit of Jeffrey Tucker's essay on book publishing, there is a great website offering all sorts of free books. It is Bartleby.com. They strive to be:

The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge.

The site features reference materials including numerous encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, Gray's Anatomy, Menken's Language, the King James Bible, etc. Poetic verse includes a number of Oxford anthologies, modern and classical verse, and the greats from Dante to Yeats. The numerous fiction includes Aesop, Goethe, Shakespeare, and Twain. The nonfiction includes many of the great essayists and philosophers. These classics are available to all and they are all online and free to the consumer.