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The Future of the Sports Industry

Recently I was interviewed by MSNBC for an article on the future of the professional sports industry in these challenging financial times. The reporter, Bill Briggs, was interested in how franchises would survive, and also in how sports themselves might change. The article was posted today at MSNBC. We mostly talked about how different sports [...]

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Climate Changing Faster, Stronger

According to an article currently up at CNN, the global climate is changing faster, stronger, sooner. This news is not surprising. The Snow and Ice Data Center, which tracks the Arctic situation among other responsibilities, reported in the end of summer 2008 survey of the extent of Arctic Ice after the summer melt period that [...]

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Future of Housing

The future of housing in this economy is on everyone’s mind. Last week the opportunity to present a keynote speech to the annual Colorado Housing Conference gave me a chance to re-visit this topic. The conference is one that focuses especially on policy related to developing affordable housing. My task was to broaden the scope [...]

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Light Visible in Financial Tunnel

Mark Anderson is a friend and colleague, and probably the smartest person I know personally. He is long-time publisher of the most widely read online newsletter on the future of the tech economy, Strategic News Service. His organization also produces the number one future and technology conference each year, Future In Review. Mark has been [...]

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Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q4 2008: Sailing Rough Waters

Sailing Rough Waters By Glen Hiemstra, October 1, 2008 The Future of Oil In the 3rd Quarter forecast I suggested that oil, then at $147 a barrel would decline to $110 or lower through the election season, then begin rising again toward $200 by year’s end. Obviously the first part of this forecast has come [...]

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Next step to financial future

Well, well, the U.S. House of Represtatives voted down the rescue package. Now what? I am attempting to synthesize what I read and see, as I am sure many of you are. This approach, currently posted on Firedoglake, seems appealing and sensible. Give Secretary Paulson $150 billion now, till January. Tween now and the new [...]

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The future way out of financial mess

Last night I was interviewed by a columnist for the Puget Sound Business Journal, about the financial crisis shaking Wall Street and reshaping the U.S. Presidential election. I reprised much of the previous blog entry, and concluded that an amazing series of bad decisions are now cascading into this debacle, with a variety of unintended [...]

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Future of Wall Street – A futurist perspective

The 500 point drop in the Dow today, 6th largest drop in stock market history, is indicative of three interrelated social-cultural-economic factors. First, in response to 9/11 various economic actors cooperated to loosen credit as a way to prop up the economy. Ironically, in retrospect this response perfectly enabled the fulfillment of the prime goal [...]

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This is not a drill

Everyone has seen on film or TV, and a few have personally experienced the following: an emergency begins – a fire, an air raid, a ship collision. For a while there is confusion, and people mill around, not sure what is happening. Then, a voice comes over a PA system: “THIS IS NOT A DRILL, [...]

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