Obama’s Budget Falls Short, Senators Have Plan? WASHINGTON – Barack Obama just went to Silicon Valley and Oregon to have another pep talk with...
The Real America Is Not Doing Well WASHINGTON – How is the “State of the Union”? Well, the Union President Obama described on January...
Old Lobbies Prevent New Energy Policies WASHINGTON – A while ago, a former high ranking Republican technocrat, senior staff member in many administrations, almost casually indicated...
Can China Provide a New Economic Model? WASHINGTON– Can we say that “US-style free market capitalism”, as a reality, as a model and as an aspiration, is...
Natural Gas Is a “Gift to the US Economy” WASHINGTON – I have already noted in an earlier piece the baffling inability to properly cover the story of...
BRIEF: How TIME Tells you about Education Failures WASHINGTON – TIME magazine editors managed to relegate a major news item on the colossal failures of US public...
America Needs Education Reform WASHINGTON – Here is the basic proposition: America’s national secondary education system bleeds very badly. We are doing poorly and...
How To Fix America: A Massive R&D Effort WASHINGTON – Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought provoking cover story essay in TIME magazine, (“How to Restore the American...
How to get America back into Innovation WASHINGTON – A recent Schumpeter column in The Economist magazine (“The Innovation Machine”, August 28 – September 3, 2010),...
Fast Trains for America? WASHINGTON – The US is terribly late in grasping the advantages of high speed rail as a more efficient...