Category: Investing
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Fault Lines : Raghuram G. Rajan
Another take on the economic crisis: somewhat dry and academic but quite thorough. The most illuminating idea was a refinement of the distorted compensation incentives that poison Wall Street. Rajan’s idea is an employee’s performance bonus held in long-term escrow to ensure it does not blow up a too-big-to-fail bank employer within a year or…
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Three ways to address innovation in business
Innovation is the big imperative of the next economy, many say. But so many things currently endemic to the American way of business impede the American way of innovation: Me-tooism. Every smartphone is playing catchup to the iPhone, which was innovative and creative. Any touch-based smartphone that follows, no matter how cool and incrementally beneficial,…
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Global Metro Summit : Saskia Sassen
In response to my previous informal overview of the Global Metro Summit I was delighted to receive a comment from one of my favorite panelists. To ensure that it is not buried at the bottom of that very long post, I promote it here so others can find it. I had written: Saskia Sassen of…
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The Soros Lectures : George Soros
Interesting ideas, prosaic text, and a streak of partisanship that is often unwelcome, despite the fact that I agree with him. Report card: C