What the investment community does like is short-term measures designed to boost share prices.
James SurowieckiYou might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.
James SurowieckiAs technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.
James SurowieckiOf course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.
James SurowieckiWhat an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.
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