ArchivesTag : economy
Will Austerity Create the Future?
This is the kind of thing that government built the last time we had such a deep economic problem and employment needed a boost. Are we building anything for the future, today, to help get out of the jobs crisis? Just wondering. Here are some alternate ideas to austerity as the path to prosperity, offered [...]
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The future of jobs in a Changing Economy
It seems today that we are entering a permanently different, and maybe more frugal, approach to economy. In this video I pose questions about the future status of national and global economy, and also about the changing nature of jobs in terms of availability and longevity. I have lived through enough recessions now, and enough [...]
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Can Economic Growth Last and other Math
Yesterday I discovered a really terrific website, a blog called Do the Math, by UCSD professor Tom Murphy. He is a physicist and mathematician, who began wondering if commonly held assumptions mostly about the future could be true when subjected to math. For example, in this blog and a related one he wrote earlier Professor [...]
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Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving Into the Future
Growing the Idaho Economy: Moving Into the Future is a research report that Glen and a team he led completed for the Idaho Transportation Department in 2010. We have been sharing it with potential clients and you can download it from our In the News page. It is a report on transportation and the possible [...]
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Building the future: Do the opposite of what we are doing
For a long time I have said that many of our policies in the U.S. seem, to me, to be the opposite of what is actually needed to revive the economy and build a better future. Recent evidence from Germany, which is in fact doing pretty much the opposite of the U.S., suggests this view [...]
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Outlook 2011 Video
Here is our new video summarizing my Outlook 2011. I wrote the outlook at the beginning of the year and we posted the original on January 3. The written version with more detail, links to resources and a recap of how accurate our Outlook 2010 was can be found in our blog archives. After multiple [...]
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What’s So Great About Sheryl Sandberg’s Ted Talk AND What She’s Missing
This is a guest blog by Jean Brittingham. I was very pleased to see Ms. Sandberg, COO of Facebook suggest some solutions for the mistakes that we women make in making our way in the work world. And even more pleased to hear her acknowledge the significant issue of dualism in our society as it [...]
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The New Pay Gap: Boomers, Gen-X, and Millennials
Glen was recently interviewed by Meghan Casserly of Forbes Magazine about the pay gap that many employees in younger generations are now dealing with. Meghan’s key point is that wage stagnation now for the Millennials may have long-term consequences for their career income, an idea that Glen agrees with. But as usual, Glen had additional [...]
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Striking a Balance: The Yin and Yang of Futuring
This is a guest blog by Brenda Cooper. As long as I’ve been alive, humanity has obsessed over its demise – at its own hands. In second grade, stern teachers sent me crawling under desks to avoid nuclear war (talk about a culture of fear – today has nothing on the sixties). Now we are [...]
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4 Trends that will Drive the Next Economy
This is a guest blog by Jean Brittingham. I’ve been a little behind on blogging because we are working feverishly on our book—The SmartGirls’ Way. It’s very exciting to see it coming together. In the book we discuss the characteristics, strengths and success stories of women entrepreneurs and the critical role that women will play [...]
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