OUTSOURCING AS AN ELECTION ISSUE? I keep predicting that it will be. Now Jim Hightower is raising it, and claims that the Republicans are using call centers in India, for fundraising. (Via SemiPundit).

Meanwhile, here’s an interesting bit on the growth in self-employment, with a striking graph. This seems to fit with what I wrote here. It also fits with what Dan Pink says in Free Agent Nation, about which I’ll be writing more at some point.

UPDATE: Here’s something else interesting on outsourcing.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Republican call-center story is apparently an urban legend.