Off to Europe

by | May 7, 2009 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization

I leave this afternoon for nearly two and a half weeks in Europe on business, returning to New York Memorial Day Weekend. The trip covers Edinburgh (May 9-11), London (13-17), Vienna (18-19), and Budapest (20-22).  Email should be [almost] wholly functional, and I...

Humility

by | April 24, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Globalization

Where are we going and when is this interregnum going to end? That’s the question on everyone’s lips. Today I have three scenarios and a coda. Caveat lector: I don’t know which of the scenarios is most likely, but I do endorse the coda as I have few...

Interest Rates or Collateral?

by | April 14, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership

Every once in awhile, a genuinely novel idea comes up in economics, and you would think that given the generally impenetrable, contradictory, and confused commentary emanating from far and wide about our current situation, now might be a propitious time for a truly...

The Balance Sheet Recession

by | April 8, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Globalization

More than ample is the ink that’s been spilled over trying to explain just exactly what we’re going through economically: Is it a bad recession? A near depression? Is it analogous to 1929? Is it analogous to….? Does our salvation lie in monetary...

Is Capitalism Dead?

by | March 28, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy

Is capitalism dead? The Financial Times has an ongoing series, The Future of Capitalism (I haven’t read it all, but "dubious" would seem to be the most apt one-word review so far),  Knowledge @ Wharton has "revisited" the question...
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