Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.

Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.