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How Kevin Ware Can Turn His Devastating Injury Into An Advantage
I suppose this isn’t the moment to be thinking about Kevin Ware’s personal brand.After his spectacular and horrifying injury at yesterday’s NCAA game, the Louisville basketball player should focus on...
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Only Four Democratic Senators Have Not Endorsed Gay Marriage
Who will be the last Democratic senator to oppose gay marriage? At this rate, we may know the answer by the end of the day.Two senators in conservative-leaning states came out for marriage equality on...
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MSNBC's Chris Hayes Compared The New York Fast Food Workers Strike To The...
On Thursday night’s edition of the new MSNBC show, “All In,” host Chris Hayes saluted the striking fast food workers in New York City.More than 400 employees from 60 restaurants walked off the job in...
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100,000 Bangladeshi Protestors Rallied To Demand The Execution Of Atheist...
Hundreds of thousands of Islamists rallied in Dhaka after an overnight "long march" to the Bangladeshi capital, demanding the execution of atheist bloggers for defaming Islam.It is the latest protest...
View ArticleA Stock Market Topping Pattern Is Underway
The market appears to be running into some technical problems at the same time that the fundamentals are showing sign of deterioration. Recent U.S. economic releases have tended to be disappointing,...
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How US Shale Blew Up The Global Energy Market
Late last month, Alexey Miller, CEO of the Russian energy giant Gazprom, dismissed the energy boom occurring in the U.S. right now as a “soap bubble [that] will burst soon” – and said the United States...
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Economics Must Answer For The Rise Of Mass Murdering Tyrants
The twentieth century’s tyrannies were more brutal and more barbaric than those of any previous age. And—astonishingly—they had their origins in economic discontents and economic ideologies. People...
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Twitter Feud Between Estonian President And Paul Krugman Is Now A Real Opera
TALLINN, Estonia — “Fiscal stimulus trumps. Increased public debt. Devalue!” You’d expect to hear that in a debate between economic policymakers, perhaps — not a rehearsal by musicians practicing to...
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There Are Only Three Options For The US To Cut Corporate Tax Rates
Tax reform is one of the few things in Washington these days that Republicans and Democrats agree is worth doing. Especially at this time of year, when taxpayers are struggling to file their tax...
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'The New York Times' Built A Robot To Write Poems
New York Times senior software architect Jacob Harris has a thing for robots and wordplay. You may recall he’s the guy behind @nytimes_ebooks, the Times answer to the elusive and inscrutable Twitter...
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There's An Obvious Fix To China's Pollution Disaster
Worldcrunch is a new global news service that for the first time delivers the best foreign-language journalism in English.BEIJING - Recently the haze that lies over much of China's eastern region,...
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Panera Exec: Secret-Menu Items Do Customers A Service
Ever heard the person next you in line ask for the Mc10:35 at McDonald's, the quesarito from Chipotle or the power steak breakfast bowl at Panera Bread and said 'huh' to yourself?Restaurants are...
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Too Many Companies Follow An Outdated Strategic Model
Hannibal Smith, the fearless leader of the A-team, always loved it when a plan came together and on that campy ’80′s TV show, they always seemed to, no matter how intricate and contrived. It seems...
View ArticleEndangered Species: An Entrepreneur In France
“I need to hire more people, but the government won’t let me,” said my friend, an internet entrepreneur in France, one of the intrepid figures still slugging it out over there—in a country whose...
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A Look At North Korea's Artillery Shows Why No One Wants War
War on the Korean Peninsula: Why no one wants to go there again, despite the rhetoricTOKYO (AP) — As tensions rise on the Korean Peninsula, one thing remains certain: All sides have good reason to...
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French Secret Service Threatened To Arrest Wikipedia Volunteer Over An Article
French secret service agents have been accused of censorship after reportedly threatening to arrest and charge a French Wikipedia volunteer unless he deleted an article on the internet...
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It'd Be A Mistake To Brush Off Emerging Technologies Like 3-D Printing And...
For those of us in the prediction business, it’s sometimes useful to go back and read past predictions to try to discern patterns in what they got right and wrong.Back in the early 90s, a lot of people...
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Five Secrets To Life From The People Who Have Lived The Longest
A piece in the Harvard Gazette covers what Karl Pillemer of Cornell University learned from studying nearly 1500 people age 70 to 100+ for his book “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from...
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KAESONG: Where 51,000 North Koreans Come To Work For 120 South Korean Companies
There is a North Korean factory with no portraits of the country's late leaders on the walls, no North Korean flags, no hand-painted posters screaming party slogans. Everything from the tissues to the...
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North Korea Has Feared An American Nuclear Attack For Decades
Those Americans who may be fearful of North Korea’s verbal threats and its missile-launch preparations should take note: Its leaders have long expressed a fear of an American nuclear attack.This fear...
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