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We All Do Better When We All Do Better

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Top 1%, Income Inequality, Productivity, Ross Perot, Invisible Hand, Henry Ford, Alexis De Tocqueville, Self-Interest, Strong Middle Class, Real Wages, Lesser America, Erik Reinert, Nick Hanauer, Joseph Stiglitz, The One Percent, Economics, Business News
Stan Sorscher

Lately, the public mood has gone the opposite way. Simply put, we are told that we will all do better when most of us do worse.

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Detroit Bike Buff Shares Story Of Scorchers, Paved Roads, Detroit Wheelmen

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Video, Critical Mass, Henry Ford, Detroit Bike History, Detroit Wheelmen, Bicycle History, Detroit History, Detroit News, Detroit Bicycle History, Major Taylor, Tom Cooper Cyclist, Slidepollajax, Jack Vandyke, Good Roads Movement, Detroit Bikes, Detroit News

Although it may be difficult to believe, bicycles were once nearly as popular as cars in Detroit. In fact, they helped pave a path that allowed the au...

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Flying Cars And Beyond: A Look At Entrepreneurial Automakers Over The Years (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone and Drew Guarini | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: New York Auto Show, Terrafugia Transition Flying Car, Elon Musk, Video, New Cars, Henry Ford, Flying Car, Flying Cars, Delorean, Tucker, Coolest Cars, Small Business News and Trends, John Delorean, Terrafugia Transition, Small Business News

With roots tracing back to the 1800s, the modern auto industry grew out of the grand ideas of entrepreneurs like Henry Ford. Since the inception of wa...

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Climate Change: Good for Business?

John Friedman | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Henry Ford, Carbon Emissions, Richard Branson, Sustainability, Bill Gates, Climate Change, Csr, Business, Entrepreneurship, Global Warming, Virgin America, Business News
John Friedman

So where are the opportunities? If we look at the traditional sectors, energy, construction and transportation one of the biggest things that leaps out to me is the idea of substituting and replacing raw materials using one thing that humans seem to be able to produce in abundance -- waste.

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Most Bizarre Diets Of Healthy People

Cracked.com | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Lemmy Kilmeister, Eating Rocks, Benito Mussolini, Henry Ford, Strange Diets, Charles Darwin, Bizarre Diets, Weird News News

Lots of people have their own personal diet plans, and nutritionists don't always agree on which one is best. Nutritionists do agree that everythi...

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Leadership Lessons, Imported from Detroit

Josh Linkner | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Creativity, Detroit, Detroit Automakers, Innovation, Henry Ford, Urban Revitalization, Detroit News
Josh Linkner

We Detroiters have a choice. We can continue to point fingers, cry in our soup, and long for the days gone by. Or we can do something about it. We can own it, fix it, and rebuild it.

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The Patriotism Reflex

David Macaray | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Jingoism, Patriotism, American Exceptionalism, American Pride, Earl Warren, Henry Ford, Politics News
David Macaray

We seem to have little capacity for sustained self-recrimination. Call it patriotism, call it blind optimism, call it "fogging the lens." American exceptionalism is alive and well.

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The Genius of Steve Jobs: Knowing What People Want Before They Do

Gernot Wagner | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Consumerism, Apple Ipad, Henry Ford, Green News
Gernot Wagner

Economists consider what consumers want to be God-given. We don't dare question consumer preferences. They are what they are. Well, it turns out God h...

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The Legacy of Steve Jobs

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Jr. Thomas Edison, Martin Luther King, Henry Ford, Apple, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs Dead, Remembering Steve Jobs, Business News
Andy Ostroy

2011-10-06-Screenshot20111006at4.46.50PM.jpg Today we mourn the man, the mind and the memory.

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Stock Tip: Be Worried. Workers Are Consumers.

Robert Reich | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Income Gap, Unemployment, Henry Ford, Unemployment Rate, Income Inequality, Stock Market, Wages, Economic Crisis, Consumer Spending, Recession, Business News
Robert Reich

Every CEO of every company that continues to squeeze payrolls needs to understand they're shooting themselves in the feet. Where do they expect demand for their products and services to come from?

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Wake Up! That's Your Life Passing You By

Russell Bishop | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Success, Vision, Henry Ford, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, W Mitchell, Personal Success, Successful Life, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

My experience working with thousands of people the world over suggests that most people won't even dream of a better life, much less take the action necessary to bring about their desired outcomes.

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Detroit Auto Companies Struggle With Union Profit-Sharing Idea

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Toyota, General Motors, Henry Ford, Chrysler, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Fiat, Car Industry, Ford, Michigan, Auto Industry, Detroit Bailout, Video, Business News

DETROIT (Bernie Woodall) - Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in qualit...

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Honda Profits Set To Plunge By Over Three-Fifths

AP | By YURI KAGEYAMA | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, Toyota, General Motors, Chrysler, Henry Ford, United Auto Workers, Honda, Fiat, Japan, Ford, Auto Industry, Business News

TOKYO -- Honda's profit for the fiscal year through March 2012 is expected to plunge 63.5 percent as vehicles sales slipped amid a parts shortage caus...

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Get Your Motor Hummin'

Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Henry Ford, Sierra Club, Electric Cars, Stopping Coal Power Plants, Green Cars, Evs, Green News
Michael Brune

If we reach the goal President Obama has set of one million electric vehicles in four years, it's the start of a quiet revolution that can ultimately free us from Big Oil.

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Detroit: An American Ghetto Where a House Costs Less Than a Car

Bryce Covert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manufacturing, Poverty, Unemployment, New Deal 2.0, Middle Class, Detroit, Gm, Henry Ford, American Dream, Ghetto, Business News
Bryce Covert

Once our pride and joy, Detroit now reminds us of how far off track our economy has gone and how downtrodden the middle class is.

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Will Robotics Take the Art Out of Artificial Intelligence?

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Ford Museum, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Robotics, Jens Schanze, Stanley Kubrick, Darpa, Christine O?Donnell, Google Driverless Car, Plug and Pray, War With the Newts, Ars Electronica, Hans-Joachim Wunsche, Singularity University, Robotic Vehicles, Golem, Minoru Asada, Speech Recognition, Henry Ford, Joseph Weizenbaum, Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Karel Capek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, William Clay Ford, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Raymond Kurzweil, Artificial Intelligence, Robocup, Geminoid, Wargames, Arts News
George Heymont

Will robotics strip the potential for creating art from artificial intelligence? Although Plug and Pray has some genuinely creepy moments, it's a film that is definitely worth your attention.

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16 Brilliant Business Minds on Twitter

2morrowknight | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Economy, Business, Economy, Small Businesses, Twitter Powerhouses, Social Media, Henry Ford, New Economy, Business News, Marketing, Madame C.J. Walker, Twitter News, Pr, Business History, Patricia Handschiegel, Entrepreneurship, Business News
2morrowknight

As we move deeper into this century, many want to know who some of the great business leaders of this millennium will be.

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The Nissan Leaf: A Nod to the First Electric Cars of 100 Years Ago

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nissan Leaf, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Detroit Electric, Electric Cars, Business News
Kate Kelly

The New York Times' front page today featured a story about the fact that in December, Nissan will be releasing the Nissan Leaf, the first all-electr...

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Famous, Interesting And Dead

John Mitchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Mary Kingsley, Florence Nightingale, Hans Chirstian Anderson, Ada Lovelace, Moll Cutpurse, Biographies, Slidepollajax, Book of the Dead, Rembrandt, Edward Jenner, Sigmund Freud, Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Catherine the Great, Books News
John Mitchinson

Many are world famous, others almost completely forgotten: the only criteria for inclusion were that they be both dead -- and interesting.

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Reconsidering Our Craving for Sugar-Laden Foods

Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honey, Maple Syrup, Henry Ford, Chocolate, Starbucks, Macchiato, Molasses, Sugar, Food News
Matthew Jacob

The industrial pioneer Henry Ford actively monitored his employees' social lives and eagerly battled the United Auto Workers, but he was no match for ...

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Those Who Cannot Innovate, Regulate: Old Media's Twisted Logic

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Association of Broadcasters, David M. Ewalt, Newspapers, Joseph Schumpeter, Nab, Riaa, Tags: Gary Shapiro, Motel T., Npr, Congress, Facebook, Boston University, Satellite Radio, Innovation Movement, Cable, Henry Ford, AM Radio, Network Television, Washington Post, Tom Cruise, Cea, FM Radio, Huffington Post, Forbes, Recording Industry Association of American, Consumer Electronics Association, Itunes, Performance Rights Act, Media News
Gary Shapiro

Should we protect old media by hindering market competition? Of course not. But try telling that to the National Association of Broadcasters and the Recording Industry Association of America.

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The Road to Nowhere: Tracing Farrakhan's Anti-Jewish Paranoia

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slaveholders New Black Panter Party, Civil Rights Movement, Protocols of Zion, Slavery, Louis Armstrong, Henry Ford, Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam, Million Man March, Religion News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Louis Farrakhan had his chance to reach out to mainstream America at the Million Man March on Washington in 1995, but he has since completely squandered that.

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HuffPost Review: The Killer Inside Me

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Killer Inside Me Movie Review, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Henry Ford, Jessica Alba, Gerald Ford, Michael Winterbottom, Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Hostel, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Jim Thompson, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Here's a case where style (and the uber-creepy performance by Casey Affleck) inject the film with an energy and tension that almost compensate for its flaws.

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Another U.S. Car Division Bites the Dust: Mercury

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saab, Oldsmobile, Hot Rod, Saturn, Alan Mulally, Hirohata Mercury, Bob Hirohata, Ford, Pontiac, Edsel, Bill Ford, Sam Barris, Henry Ford, Lincoln, Elana Ford, Mercury, George Barris, Hummer, Business News
Steve Parker

A lesson other car-makers have learned the hard way is that buyers want a car that makes a definite statement, which knows its place in the market. A perpetual question mark like Mercury has absolutely no chance of survival.

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Turning Swords into High Speed Rail - Obama's iAmerica

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, General Electric, Inventing, Living News, President Obama, American Ingenuity, Boeing, Civil Projects, Public Works Projects, Thomas Edison, Green Business, Green Living, Political Opinion, Defense Budget, General Dynamics, High Speed Rail Projects, Fdr, Defense Spending, Chrysler, General Motors, Henry Ford, Green Technology, Rail, High Speed Rail, Technology, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Environment, Aviation/Aerospace, Military, Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, Politics, Government, Politics News
Brian Ross

President Obama wants to bulk up high-speed rail, and scale down defense spending. FDR converted peace-time manufacturers into a dominating wartime pr...

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