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The next choice: A high-growth economy vs long-term stagnation.
As soon as the results of the election are known, President Obama or President Romney will be beset with a list of difficult decisions: What to do about the fiscal cliff, whether to cut the federal...
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The Real Meaning of Obamacare
Back in 1996, I wrote a book called The High-Risk Society. The book was based on the vision that Americans had to embrace risk and innovation in order to achieve faster growth and long-term prosperity....
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AT&T’s Investment Challenge to Corporate America
The economy is improving, but the U.S. is still struggling with an investment drought. Capital spending by business is 26% below the long-term trend, and has not yet recovered to pre-recession levels....
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Fast broadband enables tech job growth in Kansas City
The WSJ has a great article entitled “City’s Tech Pioneers See Strength in Numbers.” The article discusses how the new ultrafast broadband being built by Google in Kansas City is already encouraging...
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Which States Are Winning the Business R&D Race?
The National Science Foundation collects and releases a veritable fire hose of science- and innovation-related statistics that never get the attention that they deserve.* For example, earlier this year...
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NYT Article on App Economy Understates Jobs Impact
As most of you know, I spent years as chief economist and lead economics writer for BusinessWeek. And I have utmost respect for the difficult task that journalists face under deadline pressure. Having...
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Tech Investment Still Rising, Despite WSJ Story
This morning the WSJ ran a story entitled “Investment Falls Off a Cliff: U.S. Companies Cut Spending Plans Amid Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty.” The story argued that: Nationwide, business investment...
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State Broadband Index
Technet has just released its 2012 State Broadband Index. The new report, with principal author John Horrigan, ”rates the states on indicators of broadband adoption, network quality, and economic...
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White House broadband report highlights PPI research
I’m glad to see that the Progressive Policy Institute’s extensive research and policy program on the data-driven economy is getting some attention in the White House. On June 14th the White House...
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Where I am Blogging/Writing Now
Most of you have probably realized that I am no longer actively posting to this blog, which was started in late 2009 after I left BusinessWeek. My writing/blogging is now mainly divided between two...
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