Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The End of Wall Street

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Even amidst America's biggest financial crises since the Great Depression, we have but a vague idea of what brought it about and how clo...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Sabbath World

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Pressures to be productive, sixty to eighty hour work weeks as the norm, technology that tethers us to work 24/7; all of these things might ...
Monday, April 5, 2010

The Tiger Bubble

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In just a few days Tiger Woods returns to the links and to the PGA tour. It's not clear who will be happier, CBS, The PGA, other profes...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

160 degrees of Arnold

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Can Jerry  Brown or Meg Whitman do any of this?

Guaranteed Employment that Works...

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Numbers came out today indicating that Chinese manufacturing is up. Yet today, the last auto factory in California has shut its doors. Emplo...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Upheaval in the Middle East..The Sunni Diaspora

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War always has unintended consequences. Since the early days of the American invasion of Iraq, millions of Iraqis have fled their country. M...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Why Doctors Still Matter

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One of the things often left out of our health care discussion is the simple human equation. Doctors, often young and often new to America...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Derivatives explained...sort of

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Subject: Derivative Markets Explained Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit . She realizes that virtually all of her customers are u...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The very essential engineer

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As we face a world of increasing complexity and increasing problems, it seems to always fall to science to find the answers. However, scien...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Stupidity, corruption and lots of money!

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In addition to the fall of Lehman and AIG, last year's financial crisis also saw the economies of entire nations collapse. Iceland, Gree...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The future of publishing - one way or another

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Rahm

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He was the architect of Bill Clinton's efforts to make small issues add up to what some called the "incredible shrinking Presidency...
Friday, March 12, 2010

Extremism in the defense of everything...

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In the 1980's our debates about religion turned from intellectual exercises among some of the nations greatest thinkers and philosophers...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Learning from Catastrophes

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Terrorism, tsunamis, earthquakes, war, drought and the unpredictability of geopolitics.  How can we ever be fully prepared for events that g...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Look Both Ways - The Intersection of Life and Design

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Branding, design, style, new technologies and social media.  We tend to look at all of them in isolation.  Little do we realize sometimes th...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Death of American Virtue

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Thirteen years ago the nation was transfixed by a political scandal that resulted in the impeachment of a President for only the second t...