12-15-2008, 07:41 PM
No government programs, no bailouts money no "bridge loans". Is anybody talking about how to get more of this in the country? Of course not. All the clueless politicians can think about are "roads and bridges".
"In the BusinessWeek (12/12) Economics Unbound blog, Michael Mandel wrote that the Apple iPod creates 13,920 jobs in the US, "including engineering and retail." It also creates "27,250 iPod-related jobs...outside the US," according to a study by researchers at the Personal Computing Industry Center at the University of California-Irvine.
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After taking into account "cross-country wage differences," the researchers found that "US workers earned $753 million, while workers outside the U.S. earned $318 million."
All from a device with perhaps $10 worth of parts in it.
"In the BusinessWeek (12/12) Economics Unbound blog, Michael Mandel wrote that the Apple iPod creates 13,920 jobs in the US, "including engineering and retail." It also creates "27,250 iPod-related jobs...outside the US," according to a study by researchers at the Personal Computing Industry Center at the University of California-Irvine.
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After taking into account "cross-country wage differences," the researchers found that "US workers earned $753 million, while workers outside the U.S. earned $318 million."
All from a device with perhaps $10 worth of parts in it.