May 10, 2012
An interview with Daniel Gross, columnist and economics editor for Yahoo! Finance and author of Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy.
A written...
May 4, 2012
After more than 18 months, a dozen and a half summits, multiple rounds of austerity, a trillion dollars of liquidity, and now elections in Greece and France that threaten to overturn the fragile policy consensus in Europe, the Euro-crisis rumbles on. How it could end, badly, with a bank run through the European bond market or the collapse of confidence around Greece, Spain or Italy, is well understood. What is less well understood is how to resolve it.
Eurobonds, fiscal treaties,...
May 3, 2012
An interview with Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World.
A written transcript will be available by May 10.
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May 2, 2012
What's the next big thing?
Is it 3D printing, personal genomics, cleantech, hydrotech, self-driving cars, augmented reality, wearable computing, microcurrencies, big(ger) data, faster drones?
And now for something completely different.
What makes us human? In one word, preferably.
It's a question, that the other day, out of sheer orneriness, I decided to ask my Twitter followers. The...
April 26, 2012
An interview with Doc Searls, alumnus fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge.
April 24, 2012
Is every democracy destined for the problems of Greece?
In writing Passion & Purpose, my coauthors and I heard a lot about the traits and aspirations of the next generation of leaders. But we also heard a great deal about their concerns. A key anxiety is debt. Not just...
In my previous post, I argued that the potential gains from globalization are larger than most people think. Since I only addressed possible benefits, it is perhaps unsurprising that readers were quick to point out many potential downsides. The global recession has recently and directly impacted the lives of many, most obviously in the form of rising unemployment — and the finger of blame is often...
What happens when one reaches the limits of a vocabulary? Consider, for a moment, the curious case of the "recovery." 93% of gains so far have flowed to the top 1%. Median incomes in recovery are lower than they were before recovery. The bulk of jobs are...
Aside from tiny Bhutan and their pursuit of Gross National Happiness, every country bases economic policy on the pursuit of endless GDP growth, and companies are right there with them. But common sense tells us that nothing can grow forever, and thus national and corporate-level goals alike have a sizeable blind spot.
This recent humorous Platonic...
March 15, 2012
I wanted to understand how the U.S.'s failing infrastructure is affecting our economy, so I called Eric Spiegel. He's president and CEO of Siemens Corporation, the U.S. arm of the global technology, energy, healthcare, and infrastructure company. He also has 25 years of experience consulting to the energy, manufacturing, and utility industries. Here are his thoughts on what the U.S. needs to do to address our...
