U.S. manufacturing is on the rebound
Technology is driving a resurgence in manufacturing in the United States, says Vivek Wadhwa in Foreign Policy. Now “it is China’s turn to worry,” says Wadhwa, and even China’s assembly lines staffed...
View ArticleOnline subscriptions offer papers hope
The New York Times suffered revenue losses, but it has earned more from subscriptions than advertising for the first time, says Dashiell Bennett in the Atlantic. Bennett says it’s not clear if online...
View ArticleYoung adults are not trying hard enough
In the Huffington Post, Don McNay says that in order to reduce unemployment among young people, they will have to be taught how to work hard. A high unemployment rate among young adults is due to the...
View ArticleSamsung pays price and reaps a fortune
If there’s any lesson to be learned from the verdict against Samsung, it’s not that copying Apple was the wrong thing to do, says Farhad Manjoo in Pando Daily. Copying Apple turned out to be the best...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs are thriving in America
In their talk about small business, both presidential candidates are missing what’s really happening in America right now, says Robert Safian in Fast Company. Entrepreneurs and innovators are creating...
View ArticleGroup shortchanges banks for our gain
It’s time Americans got help with their liabilities rather than “just too-big-to-fail financial institutions,” says Felix Salmon in Reuters. He endorses Rolling Jubilee’s strategy to randomly forgive...
View ArticleSocial media can be a drain on resources
Cultivating fans on Twitter and Facebook may not be productive for small business owners, if it’s time taken away from developing new products, providing customer service and improving the core...
View ArticleExpiration date is up for big box stores
In this “now permanently contracting economy” big box retail stores “have entered their own yeast-overgrowth death spiral.” That’senough to create “tremendous opportunities for young people to make a...
View ArticleJC Penney needs to bring back coupons
“Bargain hunters don’t just like bargains; they also like the hunt,” says Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. JC Penney’s decision to ditch coupons for “permanent low prices” drove away its target audience...
View ArticleAmerica should be an idea superpower
The “Made in America” mantra should focus on how products are “conceived, designed, and developed, not simply assembled and manufactured,” says James Dyson in Bloomberg Businessweek. Public education...
View ArticleTechnology gurus game the system, at your expense
America’s technology moguls are admired, and even venerated, despite outsourcing manufacturing jobs, paying little in taxes, using their technology to violate our privacy, and spending millions to bend...
View ArticleWhy buy something if you have the talent to build it?
Yahoo’s $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr demonstrates the difficulty companies have in “fostering disruptive innovation,” says Andrew Nusca in ZDnet. Rather than betting “on the smartest 20-year-old in...
View ArticleApple didn’t break the law
Apple “isn’t some rogue company playing fast and loose with the tax code,” says Neil Irwin in The Washington Post. Its tax avoidance strategies show how “America’s most successful companies” can “shift...
View ArticleVanity sizing fuels the fat-phobic culture
If we want the fashion industry “to embrace larger bodies,” we need “to demand an end to vanity sizing” — the practice of lowering a garment’s labeled size without changing its measurements, says...
View ArticleSmart phones ‘keep us in virtual Skinner boxes’
“We’re entering the age of Skinnerian Marketing,” says Bill Davidow in the Atlantic. Just as B.F. Skinner trained pigeons to peck at buttons in search of food, Internet companies are devising potent...
View ArticleLong story short
More of our opinions: A high tech end to waste If you want to see some wince-worthy waste, check out the state Capitol at the end of a session. There, you can witness a forest worth of printed...
View ArticleCorporations are the real snoops to fear
Sam Pizzigati of otherwords.org says Americans don’t necessarily have to worry about the government spying on them, but rather private consulting companies like Booz Allen. These companies rake in...
View ArticleAsiana lawsuit won’t fly
Erik Wemple of the Washington Post says Asiana Airlines’ suit against a TV station that misreported the names of pilots in a crash invites the question, “Is the airline worse at PR, law or aviation?”
View ArticleWell, what we did learn?
Our opinion: The Dodd-Frank regulations of the financial services industry are more theory than reality. Nothing less than the potential for more economic disaster is at stake. It’s some anniversary...
View ArticleShutdown could drive a brewer to drink
“What I haven’t heard about is how the shutdown is affecting businesses on levels most people don’t ever think about,” writes George de Piro on the Beer Nut blog. “If you have any applications awaiting...
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