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The United States is faced with multi-hundred billion dollar deficits stretching year after year into the future. How did it happen and what should be done about it?
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Ed Conard, a retired partner of Bain Capital says that one of the company’s key insights was that “companies are in fierce competition with each other to deliver as much […]
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Economist Daniel Altman on gold’s economic stability and why we shouldn’t return to the gold standard.
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The Godfather of DIY Punk says that the internet has opened up new worlds of instantaneous communication, and new opportunities for media and governments to obscure and evade the truth.
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Veterans are a valuable asset in the civilian economy because they are a self-selected group who has shown initiative and been given a lot of responsibility at very young ages.
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Jeff Jarvis, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Diamandis, Jonathan Harris, and Jaron Lanier on a better technological future informed by the best of human nature.
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Whether women, or men, or both invented it – empathy, even in adversarial relationships, is invariably the wisest approach.
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Warren Littlefield, former NBC president, advises young people entering any field to trust in their instincts even when they run counter to common sense in the industry, then to fight […]
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Stephen Greenblatt argues that art is always grounded in its time and place, but that powerful art contains universal elements.
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The scarcity of professional talent is a growing problem for companies around the world, says Anil Gupta, a leading expert on strategy and globalization.
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As more people than ever reach old age around the world with less and less in savings, Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman explains how employers can educate their employees about […]
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Leadership isn’t about making all the decisions. It’s about empowering talented people to make many of them for you, and utilizing their talents as effectively as possible.
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