Sunday, March 14, 2010

Editor Notes

Siege of the Greenback
I am one of 300-plus million consumers in the United States. I consume, therefore I spend, and I spend in dollars. How much and how frequently I spend determine in large measure the health of the U.S.
BY Rosalind McLymont
Health-Care Reform
Americans deserve an honest discourse on how to fix their health-care system. That’s not what they’ve gotten on the notion of a public insurance plan.  Surely, something is wrong when, at $7,421
BY Rosalind McLymont
Work-Force Readiness
The Conference Board’s 2009 Annual Conference Dinner on May 27 wasn’t just  a gathering of corporate glitterati in the Greek-inspired grandeur of Cipriani Wall Street for a night of fine wine, fi
BY Rosalind McLymont
Time, Tide and Man
My maternal grandfather, the late Phillip Calder, always admonished his children and grandchildren that “time and tide wait on no man.” On May 13, time, tide and man did not wait on the United Sta
BY Rosalind McLymont
Small Gets Its Day
During the 1973 energy crisis, British economist E.F. Schumacher published a collection of articles and essays titled Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered that called for a holistic app
BY Rosalind McLymont
The Bonus Concept
In the early 1980s, I worked for an investment bank that became among the first to crumble when the subprime mortgage market went bust. As an assistant to brokers, I was by no means high up in the fir
BY Rosalind McLymont
Groundbreaker in Davos
From Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, heads of state, policymakers, and the chief executives of leading corporations, financial and academic institutions, think tanks and social nonprofits met in the mountain resor
BY Rosalind McLymont
The Tragedy of the Commons
In 1968, an ecologist from Texas, Garrett Hardin, published what is considered the classic paper on the dilemma of individual gain versus community gain. Published in the journal Science, Hardin’s p
BY ROSALIND MCLYMONT
Celebrating Barack Obama
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the greatest leaders of the African race, wrote this in 1923: “I saw the injustice done to my race because it was Black and I became dissatisfied on that account. I went
BY Rosalind McLymont
Capitalism Faces the Future
Sixty-four years after the meeting at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., that remade the global financial system, we are witnessing a financial crisis whose magnitude calls into questi
BY Rosalind McLymont
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