By Ros Krasny Fri Aug 25, 12:03 PM ET
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Take that, Lou Dobbs. Despite much handwringing and political posturing, the surge of job outsourcing, by increasing productivity, has actually helped raise real wages for low-skilled U.S. workers, according to two Princeton University economists.
They countered critics of outsourcing, including high-profile CNN host [...]

Manila - Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Friday ordered a coordinated national campaign to gather human hair and chicken feathers to be used in fighting the country’s worst oil spill off a central island.
Arroyo said a task force overseeing the efforts to clean up the oil spill in Guimaras Island, 495 kilometres south of [...]

One of my Filipino bogging acquaintances, Yuga posted this recently, and also spends a lot of time writing about and running sites built around differentiating Filipino blogs and web sites from all others.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing? 
Here’s a view from a Westerner (American) married to a Filipina and moving full-time [...]

More pics courtesy of Thomas Glenn

Hi,
A little over a week ago the effects of a strong tropical depression heading for the coast of China manifested in my area as unusually large waves. Well, just up the beach from me about a quarter of a mile is the designated surfing area in La Union. For some reason there are not many [...]

Courtesy of Thomas Glenn

We’ve changed server locations and had a few other unavoidable delays.  But things should work better from now on.  I’m going to post some more of the excellent market photos that Thomas Glenn was so kind to provide: