Recent content by Lurch

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    Competition and 70,000 RD jobs

    An interesting article from the BBC regarding the multifibre agreement. Anyone believe the RD has the desire to compete? Or will they lose a worst case scenario 70,000 jobs to Asia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4168753.stm
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    Consequences of currency manipulation

    Today I suspended my project that would have placed an additional 80-150 jobs in the RD (paying 15,000 to 35,000 pesos a month). I simply do not have the tolerance for government and elite sector interference in my business models. I have always believed that everything could be done better...
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    The loan has barely arrived and the mass thievery has already begun

    From the newspage RD$1.79 billion in governmental transfers President Hip?lito Mej?a requested that Congress authorize a RD$1.79-billion transfer from the National Budget. The transfer would affect the budgets of the ministries of Education, Environment, and Industry & Commerce, as well as...