Technology & Innovation

Sure, Geithner and Barney Frank are idiots, and regulators are by nature “slow moving,” but one hedge funder, who works at an “already registered” fund, says it would be a […]

Twitter is a great place to learn about philanthropy from a new angle.

Character in Leadership..

Prof. Krugman VS Tim Geithner, To Whom will be right (part II).rn rn I hate to see Rupert Murdoch’s WSJ can even figure out a way to home deliver its newspaper to rural area, that NYT CANNOT! That worries me, in NYT almost every day it seems to me that the Columnists, in NYT write articles that aim at teaching other how to save the world. In realty they can not save my beloved (may be not his!) NYT from depression! How can make me believe their writing?rn rn rnrnrnrnrn rn

In this month’s Vanity Fair, David Kamp charts how our centuries-long obsession with the American Dream may be dying. To take stock of where the American Dream stands today, let’s […]

Big Think presents a new series from leading global economists: When Will the Recession End? A death knell for investing, the end of easy credit, the emergence of a regulatory […]

Conor Clarke in the Atlantic’s business blog today, reports on Senator Benjamin Cardin’s plan to make it easy for newspapers to become nonprofits. But do we really want newspapers that […]

The Times editorial page has been conspicuously down a token right-winger recently as former Atlantic blogger Ross Douthat stands on deck, preparing to step to the plate where Bill Kristol […]

I am a naturalized US citizen from the former Soviet Union where I held eight Certificates of Invention from their equivalent of our Department of Patents. I consider myself an […]

I’ve never understood why Celebrities and Athletes get paid so much more than anyone else. How is it that one man can make 14 million dollars simply putting a round […]

Recent economic moves by the Obama Administration raise eerie parallels between the U.S. economy and the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic. Can national socialism be far behind? Weimar Germany has […]

Matt Miller describes how leadership is impacted by faith in Christ.

I have been thinking a lot lately on programs that are aimed toward youth. We wonder so often why the youth of our day and age are getting into so […]

The future Harvard MBA best case study of Communist China took down speculators! What next? Lesson we learnt (Ask Donald Tsang, he may come to NY soon!): No major regulation changed (So Lehman Brothers debacle or may be SWINDLE happened in HK again in 2008), No transformation, innovation and improvement of the industry after intervention!

There wasn’t any lack of Americans enjoying an extended liquid lunch on St. Patrick’s Day. But surprisingly, the one day of the year where everyone suddenly becomes Irish wasn’t a […]

Market-research leader Neilsen studied the opening and closing of retail stores nationwide between 2001 and 2008 and published the winners and losers. The most affordable consumer alternatives saw growth with […]

As Noah Feldman shows us in “A Prison of Words,” his Times Op-Ed piece yesterday, “refinements” filed recently by the Justice Department regarding the Guantanamo Bay lawsuits showcase the subtlety […]

Know an exceptional young talent under the age of 25? Think they would be a good candidate for the web’s most engaging global thought forum? Big Think is launching a […]

The Darkest Age of Journalism Take 2: Cramer vs Jon Stewart The bravest and noble Lady Katharine Graham, the late Publisher of Washington Post was long gone! The spirit of young, hungry and innocent Bob Woodward was gone too!

As I reach the halfway point of the “threescore years and ten” years that the Book of Psalms promise to let us live, it occurs to me I have spent […]

Are you 'reading' this oped on paper, or are you 'screening' it online?

I know that I just shot an arrow into the war of Atheism Vs. Christianity but if we have time can we also discuss this topic. I’m a laymen and […]

What causes the Housing bubble and the result of recession! (See the cunning Greenspan, he only mentioned Housing Bubble not recession in his article! I do not buy it). ANSWER: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FLAW OF CAPITALISM!

Does the 24/7 new media environment make the economic recovery more difficult?

Yesterday I blogged on the depths to which the American student’s performance has slipped due to the shambling state of our public education system. Today I was heartened to see […]

The federal government is gearing up once again for the census. Often, the deeper meaning of that decennial account of American demography is lost amidst statewide political bickering. While the […]

We Are Team USA NOW!rnrnMilton Friedman had done a mistake in Chile with his “wanton market” theory!rnWarren Buffett was wrong to encourage public to buy stock too early in NYT. rnAlan Greensplan knows noting about COD and CDS until 2005. So he made a lifetime mistake and ruined his name to bring the tsunami recession to America.rnrnThe above all had been wrong and may be wrong again of their opinions in this recession.rnrnrnrnrnrn

Webster’s defines meritocracy as a) a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement, or b) leadership selected on the basis of […]

Despite the recent Gaza conflict and the subsequent media backlash against Israel, the land of milk and honey has found an unlikely cultural and socio-political marriage with Latin America. Don’t […]

Daniel Dennett, the philosopher, evolutionary biologist, and cognitive scientist who is co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, will be in the Big Think studio on Friday. […]