Business Beast: Sandy’s Economic Sucker Punch

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1 OOF Sandy's Economic Sucker Punch The hurricane exposed the vulnerabilities of our new 'just-in-time' economy. Daniel Gross on the economic mentality that makes us susceptible to natural disasters—and massive inefficiencies. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 VOILA How to Stop Blackouts As the weather gets increasingly wild, experts say America's outdated electrical infrastructure is overdue for a serious upgrade. How new power systems could pay off. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 TRADE How China Made America This election ignores our long and profitable trade with China, writes Eric Jay Dolan, author of 'When America First Met China.' Read it at The Daily Beast The economy looks to be on track for steady improvement no matter who wins the White House on Tuesday, according to analysts.” READ IT NOW › 5 WORTH A LOOK The Week's Best Biz Reads From Sandy to penny stock fraud in Florida, the best business and finance journalism from around the Web this week. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 TECH The iPad Mini: Who's Impressed? Apple promised big on its latest entry. Here's what the experts said about this thinnest-yet venture into the small-tablet market Read it at The Daily Beast Wildest Celebrity Wagers Go for the Gold In response to How to Stop Blackouts in Minutes : I'm living in Sweden at the moment.You remember Sweden that 'high tax, socialist, health cover for everyone' country that ranks 3rd on the Legatum Prosperity Index (www.prosperity.com). I live out in the forest and have rarely suffered power outages. What is more, when I do have an outage I get paid compensation—paid-by the electric company. Where are you America? What, in heaven's name, are you dreaming about that your infrastructure has decayed to the extent shown in this report. Nothing is for free here either, taxes are paid to provide this level of security and comfort, to monitor excessive abuse of consumers and to enforce adequate and safe standards..But,hey, guess what? The 'taxes' are paid to an org (the gov) we can change every few years, not to some 'private shareholders' over whom we have little or no control. —keith44

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