With the 2009 Davos conference ending without any grand "problem solved" announcements, I would like to offer my prescription for what the world's leaders should do in the future. But first a little relatively recent "Davos history" from the last traumatic shock to the global economic system: the 9/11...

The Economist has published an essay on the World Economic Forum in Davos entitled "Mountain Reboot", which says, in part...

It is generally agreed that the system needs rebooting. The Davos agenda, entitled "Shaping the Post-Crisis World", is laden with soul-searching discussions about the mess, from the brainstorming...

Some thoughts on New York City (my home town and where I live today), the collapse of our economic system, and leadership (where influence can be more important than domination/control)...

When New York City's political and civic leaders developed PlaNYC 2030, the world was a very different place. In...

We all learn from the nursery rhyme "Humpty "Dumpty" that "all the King's horse and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again."

I believe we are living through the Great Collapse. The collapse of free market capitalism. The collapse of the doctrine of warfare between nations as an...

Senator McCain likes to claim he will be a bipartisan leader. He likes to claim he will get things done once elected president, because he knows how to reach across party lines.

He may say this, but does Senator McCain "Walk the talk"? Does he really know how to...

Today's failure of the bailout legislation represents the failure of Congress and the Bush administration to ask a fundamental question: "Why do we have this crisis?"

They thought they had asked and answered that question, in identifying the fact that these mortgage-based investment instruments are crashing our economic system.

However,...

I just watched Tom Brokaw's interview with Bill Clinton on Meet The Press. Tom asked Bill if -- given how Bill refers to John McCain as a great man -- he would say the same thing about Barack Obama. I thought Bill Clinton's answer was very instructive... and very...

John McCain's temperament has been a side-bar issue for some time now, as people wonder if he would take us to war unnecessarily ("bomb bomb Iran"). Speaking of his own temperament, McCain claims he is they guy who works across party lines. He promises to end the gridlock...

"Economic Shock and Awe", as Arianna put it, indeed. In another parallel to the planning of the Iraq War, there is this curious answer given by Deputy White House Press Secretary Fratto at the end of The Bush administration's September 23rd Briefing that has me wondering just how...

Welcome to our brave new post-Capitalistic world.

Today our leaders in Washington announced (all the details to come later) that the Federal Government is going to rescue the financial system from total collapse.

You can read the story as reported by The New York Times here and, of course,...

Capitalism is dead.

And I'm not surprised.

I'll explain why in a minute, but first here's Capitalism's obituary. It's the New York Times' lead story on the bailout of A.I.G....

WASHINGTON -- Fearing a financial crisis worldwide, the Federal Reserve reversed course on Tuesday and agreed...

I want to thank the mainstream media ("CNN division") for - perhaps inadvertently - doing the American people a great service. When Campbell Brown asked what John McCain considered to be inappropriately tough questions of a campaign spokesman, McCain got so mad he canceled his interview with Larry King.

During his acceptance speech, Barack Obama offered a list of what the change he represents consists of. However - because we all know elections are not won or lost based on lists of policy proposals (no matter how sensible they may be) - I'm writing to offer a storyline...

Barack Obama has just done a difficult - and necessary - thing. He has ended his relationship with Rev. Wright. I watched most of Sen. Obama's press conference (missed the very beginning but heard most of his opening remarks and all the questions he took) and am now listening to...

Watching Barack Obama on Fox News Sunday, I was struck by something that hadn't occurred to me before: Maybe Fox News thinks they might have to deal with Barack being president and -- unlike Bill Clinton -- they see no immediate reason to try and destroy his presidency from...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary

I want to congratulate the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams for doing such a thorough job reporting the true, 9.4 percent (not "double digits") nature of Hillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania on last night's news....

The official results for last night's debate as of 12noon Eastern time are:

Hillary Clinton - 1,258,278 (54.7 percent)
Barack Obama - 1,042,573 (45.3 percent)

99 percent of all votes have been counted.

When you subtract 45.3 from 54.7 you get 9.4.

The last time I checked my...

"Stupid is as stupid does." - Forrest Gump, when he's asked "Are you stupid or something?"

Forrest Gump is "the story of a man with an IQ of 75 and his epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture and experiencing first-hand historic events while largely...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to ABC's Pennsylvania Democratic debate

Last night, we witnessed the television journalism equivalent to FEMA's response to the Katrina disaster. And the faster we realize that's what happened, the faster we'll be able to save the socioeconomic fabric of our...

As the controversy over Barack's "bitter" comments continues (at least in the minds of the pundits who get answers to whether it's an issue or not by asking themselves), I watched tonight's Compassion Forum on CNN to see how Barack would handle the subject before a faith-oriented audience. Given...