Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.