The rhyme and the reason behind the lingering Great Recession spelled out 13 years beforehand by a billionaire who also correctly predicted the 1987 stock market crash. The housing bubble predicted six years before it burst by a prescient law school professor and Obama Administration financial reform advisor…
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The Price of Cheap: The Hidden Cost of E-Commerce
Oil companies say that demand will never be the same and that refinery cutbacks are necessary to boost sagging profits. Meanwhile, more cash-strapped shoppers are looking to save money and time shopping online. What do these seemingly separate trends have to do with one another? A lot more than you might think. Learn why e-commerce may contribute to increasing fuel prices, inflation and a retail landscape of tomorrow that hardly resembles anything we know today.
What Raindrops Tell us About the Emergent World Order
We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.