Gongol.com Archives: February 2017
February 23, 2017
China will stop buying North Korea's coal
An effort to pressure the country into submission over nuclear weapons. May it work, for the good of us all.
A well-reported story on Warren Buffett's acquisition strategy
Rare is the financial reporter who actually understands the Buffett process. It's worth reading.
Truck platoons could hit Highway 20 in Iowa this year
Cooperative cruise control (involving trucks communicating with one another) could be a reality in Iowa by the end of the year
Hyped-up immigration crackdowns could hurt the US housing market
It's not just a matter of whether law enforcement only actually prosecutes people here without proper documentation -- if they create a sufficient amount of insecurity and uncertainty among people who immigrated here legally that they are starved of the confidence they need to make long-term decisions (like buying homes), then the waves of homeowners looking to exit the market (like, say, Baby Boomers hoping to down-size) may find themselves losing a very ready set of buyers. At the margins (where prices are decided), immigrants have a huge impact on the housing market.
France's runoff system for electing a president shows how the system determines the outcomes
America's first-past-the-post system works rather differently, with dramatically different outcomes
