I am no partisan of Milton Friedman, but according to my economic understanding, protectionism is bad.  Why?  Because it closes off countries and disrupts and the natural flow of trade.  And the world has experienced a bad spell of protectionism before.  In the 1930, Europe and the US got all protectionist on us and the [...]

Bernie Madoff has been caught and sentenced, esconced in jail for 50 years, which is the least he deserves for his heinous deeds.  65 billion dollars!  His fraud is unprecedented in scale.  Anyway, here is an Arabic language article by me dealing with the fraudster’s exploits.  This is article is noticeably “liter” and more readable [...]

هذا المقال يتناول العبقرية اليابانية في الصناعة والإدارة، مستشهداً في ذلك بشركة تويوتا المعروفة Perhaps spurred by my recent incursions into the domains of business, operations management, and marketing, I have been meditating more and more on successful companies and how they work. One result is this Arabic language article exploring the main strengths of [...]

مقال حول إنفلونزا الخنازير وآثاره على الاقتصاد العالمي.  كتبت هذا المقال في مايو لكن ما زال المرض مدوياً في العالم، وخصوصاً في البحرين.  نرجو الله أن يحمينا من آثار هذا الفايروس  We’re all aware of the recent craziness surrounding the latest disease in fashion, swine flu (this appellation is cooler than plain H1N1!).  I don’t mean to [...]