The Loudest Duck
Diverse companies can be much better and more creative, much more profitable and able to succeed globally, only if they are aware and conscious of all we bring in preconceived notions of who others are.
Diverse companies can be much better and more creative, much more profitable and able to succeed globally, only if they are aware and conscious of all we bring in preconceived notions of who others are.
Posted 11.22.2009 | Technology
Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod's "Shift Happens (Did You Know?)" series tracks the progression of globalization and information technology in a way that...
Naomi Klein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
As the new edition of my book No Logo comes out, it feels like a 'movement moment' once again. A new wave of exciting climate justice activism is underway in the lead up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.
Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books
There's a major panel discussion going on today in Washington, D.C. called "The Next Stage," in which economists are coming together to discuss the pr...
Peter Whoriskey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside ...
Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
The politics of the President and the Congress, influenced by the politics of the financial community, brews into the perfect desertion.
Washington Post | Anthony Faiola | Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar is aiding the American economic recovery but setting off alarm bells overseas, with corporate executives, poli...
Terrance Heath | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
When it comes to health care reform, the states most likely to benefit -- because they have the highest percentages of uninsured citizens -- are the source of the loudest objections to reform.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
The very rich and the very poor exist under capitalism and communism. We must look to the middle class, and its size and growth, to see the secret of capitalism.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
Washington obscures the Trade War by calling it globalization. Globalization is nothing more than a trade war with production looking for countries cheaper to produce.
Mark Levine | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
It is up to Obama to use the Prize as an opening to pursue truly transformational policies on the world stage regardless of the potential political cost to him.
DailyFinance | Charles Hugh Smith | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
The current recession has stoked deep-seated fears about a declining middle class. A great collective anxiety about such a decline has been floating a...
MJR Montoya | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
During the Nobel ceremonies, President Obama should graciously re-gift the prize, and he should instead recast it as recognition of those who have suffered through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
Countries like Brazil are now in a position to compete successfully in the athletic events that comprise the Games, and also to provide the venue for the competition.
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.
Barry D. Wood | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
Today, nearly 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, freedom and diversity are the realities in post-communist Europe.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
For now, we can solve the problems of our fiscal and trade deficits by eliminating the corporate income tax and replacing it with a 3% value added tax. This actually cuts taxes and raises more revenue.
Rob Shapiro | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Prospects for a strong U.S. recovery are slim, especially one strong enough to help the rest of the world. And that will be the biggest, unspoken disappointment at this week's G-20 meetings.
Mike Elk | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
In the wake of the China tire-import decision, we have heard a lot of rhetoric falsely labeling it as the beginning of a trade war. It is not. Workers around the world are engaged in an effort to protect themselves.
Jake Colvin | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
President Obama and Congress must make sure that U.S. climate policy efforts encourage other countries to reduce their carbon emissions and spur global demand for U.S. clean energy technologies.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living
At stake is nothing less than our ability to compete successfully in the raw global arena, and one of the deciding factors will be American professionals' ability to speak strategic foreign languages.
Morgan Warners | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.
Ellen Brown | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
Why was Bear Stearns saved from bankruptcy but Lehman Brothers was not? How could the decision makers not realize the dire consequences of letting Lehman go down?
Laura Liswood | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business