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Food for thought: One of the principles of free-market economy is a non-interference by Government, in other words Government shouldn’t regulate the market, it should let it sail its own course.

So, the recent US bailouts were totally against the free-market principles that the US government holds fast to. In 1997, during the Asian crisis, when Malaysia exercised the same Government intervention to save the country’s economy - bailing out some businesses - US Government was against it.

History repeats, isn’t it? Now we see, US doing bailouts after bailouts… and the principles are nowhere to be seen.

When Bush was reminded about the free-market principles, here is what he had to say:

“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision “to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.”

Bush’s comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market, as his administration has orchestrated unprecedented government intervention in the face of a dire financial crisis.

“I am sorry we’re having to do it,” Bush said. source

He has all the possible entertainment stuff, yet he is bored.

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Source: ritholtz

Source: McClatchyDC

Source: www.kaltoons.com

If you are a web designer or a programmer I am sure this thing happens a lot. Usually they are the victims of the miscommunication, they are the ones that make hundreds of revisions to the project because of miscommunication.

When I used to work as a Web Designer in my previous job (2 years back), usually company would make a mistake of not sending any web designer to the project meetings. They would send all the non-IT staff, like sales manager, marketing manager, COO…etc.

Usually in these meetings many things would be discussed about the project’s design (look & feel), and project specifications. These meetings are very important for the web designer to get the feeling of what the customer wants. Because, if you do not hear it from customer’s mouth, someone else would explain it differently and you would be designing a website for this imaginary customer. And the end result would be, of course, something that is not what the customer wanted.

So moral of the story? Make sure the person responsible for the project development be in the meeting, especially in the first meetings where the project specifications are drawn.

Click here to see the whole cartoon (10 images) My favorite is “How the programmer wrote it” The guy did some hell of a programming there ;) How about you? Which one do you like?