WhyTheHeck

to encourage innovation and invention to fuel a long-term economic recovery, we need to measure its impact. No one has created an “innovation index.” We are proposing the first measurement to go into that index. Once an index is created, comparing countries and states and cities to one another, we guarantee that governments at all levels are going to increase their focus on new business formation and improve their ability to determine whether their programs are working.

THE GREEN DIVIDEND:  HOW TO END OUR FOSSIL FUEL ADDICTION WITHOUT PAIN
 
No one talks seriously about reducing our dependence on carbon-based fuels by taxing them, which would be the obvious way to reduce consumption.  The conventional wisdom is that such a tax would be expensive and unpopular, politically dead on arrival. And if the tax [...]

 
The solution to the housing crisis –and part of the solution to our economic downturn — is right at America’s doorstep. Let a million more well-to-do immigrants into the country, to buy and rent the unused units, and to start spending money.
 
There is no other choice.  The solution certainly won’t come from within the US [...]