Obama Rediscovers Manufacturing, Or 'Making Things Makes Money' Microsoft Investigating Suicide Threat. 11 January '12, 10:00pm Follow When several hundred workers reportedly threatened to commit mass suicide if their pay requests went unmet, one of the darker sides of capitalism reared its head. The employees, who work on building Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console via a seperate corporation, managed to spark a massive news cycle, making their demands known.
Today, in response to the situation, Microsoft issued a short statement that claims the firm is in fact looking into the issue. CNN, who received the comment from Microsoft, was unable to confirm the exact details of the dispute between Foxconn, the vendor in question, and its staff. This is Microsoft’s current quote: “Microsoft takes working conditions in the factories that manufacture its products very seriously, and we are currently investigating this issue. We are monitoring this story, and will bring you its next chapters. America's economy: Something is working. Money Chart. Why Do We Hold Fast To Losing Strategies? | Co. Design. I spent the summer of 2005 studying poker. I interviewed some of the best players in the world, attended the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, analyzed “pokerbots” -- poker-playing computers -- and chronicled the efforts of highly rational players, such as Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, a game theorist with a PhD who is a world champion and a formidable one-on-one player.
While poker can be analyzed rationally, with big egos and big money at stake it can also be a very emotional game. Poker players explained to me that there’s a particular moment at which players are extremely vulnerable to an emotional surge. It’s not when they’ve won a huge pot or when they’ve drawn a fantastic hand. We tend to hang on grimly, and wrongly, to shares that have plunged. Even those of us who aren’t professional poker players know how it feels to chase a loss. Being an economist is rarely an advantage in a romantic situation, but this was perhaps an exception.
All of this is pure chance. [Image by Alex Indigo] Fiscal policy: Prudence is the new greed. Economic geography: Moving toward stagnation. The Fundamental 2x2 of Capitalism.