Helping Everyone Join America’s Jobs Revolution
For the first time in living memory, the United States has a genuine shortage of workers. How will we address this...
Riding the Secular Bull Into the 2030s
The Golden Age of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution is upon us. Perhaps, the greatest opportunity created by this...
The Anglosphere Rises
Since the 16th century, the English-speaking nations have been uniquely innovative, productive, and influential. As...
Crossing the Dematerialization Frontier
Since at least 1970, it’s been widely believed that accelerating economic growth and population growth would exhaust...
Innovation-Driven Dis-Inflation Distorts...
published on: Dec 15, 2019
While most economists spend a lot of time collecting and analyzing inflation, productivity, and income growth data, a growing number of experts...
Managing a Faltering China
published on: Nov 15, 2019
Conventional wisdom still believes that China is on its way to eclipsing the United States and becoming the dominant superpower of the 21st...
America’s Great Middle-Class Boom Has Begun
published on: Nov 15, 2019
As Professor Carlota Perez forecast two decades ago, the tumultuous “transition phase” of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution is now being...
Eliminating Poverty and Maximizing Happiness
published on: Jul 15, 2019
Despite spending nearly $24 trillion in public funds fighting the War on Poverty, poverty is still a widespread problem in the United States. What...
Degree Inflation Undermines U.S....
published on: Jul 15, 2019
Increasingly a baccalaureate degree has become a requirement for more and more jobs, regardless of whether anything learned in college enhances the...
Gaming the Sino-American Trade-War
published on: Jun 15, 2019
While developments in the Middle East, Korea and Europe get a lot of attention, the economic and geo-political struggle between the United States and...
China’s Narrow Path to 21st Century Dominance
published on: May 15, 2019
5G technology is just one of many battlefields on which the U.S. and China now struggle for supremacy. In every area from defense to technology to...
The Opportunity and Threat of Marijuana...
published on: Mar 15, 2019
Annual global revenues for the legal marijuana industry may eventually rise to between $150-and-$500 billion, generating enormous tax revenues. As...
Boomers are the Economy’s “Energizer...
published on: Mar 15, 2019
The baby boomers have shaped every era of their lives and the Golden Age of the Fifth Techno-Economic Revolution will be no different. What will...
Crisis for the Russian Bear
published on: Feb 15, 2019
Nearly thirty year ago, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Two yearsw later, on Dec 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the...
China Faces Tough Choices
published on: Feb 15, 2019
China and the United States are locked in a struggle for control of the 21st century. Trade is at the heart of this struggle, but the conflict goes...
Out-Sourcing, In-Sourcing, and Globalization
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Politicians and managers often discuss outsourcing of American jobs by American firms, but seldom discuss the in-sourcing of jobs by foreign...
Where Are U.S. Economic Policies Taking The World?
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Because of its dynamism and scale, America’s trade, regulatory, and monetary policies set the tone for the rest of the world. To a large extent,...
The Realities of American Income Inequality
published on: Oct 15, 2018
Since the Financial Crisis, American income inequality and poverty have become highly politicized. But most of this debate relies on anecdotal...
THE NATIONAL DEBT: AMERICA’S MOST OVERRATED...
published on: Oct 15, 2018
Since the late 70s, the national debt has grown rapidly in absolute terms, as well as relative to GDP. And according to the latest government data,...
The 2018 Debt Crisis
published on: Sep 15, 2018
What do the Turkish lira, the Iranian rial, the Russian ruble, the Indian rupee, the Argentine peso, the Chilean peso, the Chinese yuan and the South...
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