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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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Job outlook improving

The U.S economy lost 20,000 jobs in January 2010, compared to a colossal loss of nearly 800,000 in January 2009. This is what progress looks like.

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Right on Economic Growth

Now and then it is nice, as a futurist, to see that something you forecast and expected is coming to fruition, especially when what you said ran counter to a lot of common wisdom. Two economic announcements today confirm what I was saying about Microsoft in the middle of last year, and about the U.S. [...]

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