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31 January 2012

What Bread Tells us About Fiscal Policy

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It's true that baking bread involves mixing ingredients, letting them rise, and then baking them. It is not true that these steps can be...
30 January 2012

Social Invention & The Fourth Economy

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18 January 2012

John Lennon says you should Hold On

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07 January 2012

Bullish on Stocks

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More than once, when preparing for a trip to a colder region of the country, I hesitated before packing clothes warmer than what would be co...
04 January 2012

The Most Important Thing To Remember for 2012

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One of my favorite quotes is from Peter Drucker. "Most problems cannot be solved. And most problems are made irrelevant by success....

Huntsman's Policy / Politics Dilemma

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Jon Huntsman is the only GOP candidate who simply stated that he believes that scientists probably better understand climate change and evol...

Bachmann - From Guano to Goner

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Michele Bachmann's closing speech last night sounded to me like something you'd have heard from that poor woman on the street corn...
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03 January 2012

Last Tweets of 2011

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At times he demonstrated a gift for numbers. One morning, for example, he multiplied all the zeros in his cheerios at a glance. To mak...
29 December 2011

Unemployment's Big Drop in 2012

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The double-nothings (the decade from 2000 to 2009) were the worst for job creation in half a century. From the 60s to the 90s, the economy c...
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Voting for Social Safety Net of Your Choice

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Curiously, a great deal of our political differences can be captured by our aversion to risk. The thought that we should have universal heal...
23 December 2011

One Nation .... Gone to Many

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"One nation" was probably always more fiction than fact but perhaps one of the unintended outcomes of how the Internet allows man...
22 December 2011

Kahneman Explains Our Love of Irrelevant Issues

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One of the great mysteries of life is how we manage to waste so much time in political debate, dialogue, and coverage on issues that are –...
16 December 2011

Newt Wit

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The narrative on Newton Elroy Gingrich is that the man - for all his flaws - is  very intelligent . More important than whether you believe ...
08 December 2011

November '11 Tweets

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As part of trend towards ever-younger billionaires, I predict some 9 yr old will launch a new market that lets kids trade excess candy. ...
07 December 2011

Sure You Have What it Takes to Win. Who Doesn't? The Real Question is, Do You Have What It Takes to Fail?

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The older I get, the more convinced I am that we don't do enough to celebrate failure. Progress depends on it. In January, one team wi...
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06 December 2011

The Theology of Emoticons

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In the near future, theologians reading the King James version noticed what they concluded was the first use of emoticons. In Matt 6: 32 (...
02 December 2011

Bad, Sure, But Still Better Than Bush. And He Got Re-elected

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This latest jobs report makes Obama’s re-election more probable. In Obama’s first year, he presided over the worst loss in jobs since ...
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