Apocalyptic Headlines About a Looming ‘Retirement Crisis’ Are the Surest Sign That There Isn’t One

Quick question: how many of you readers were “demanding” the internet in 1995? Or a GPS function on your mobile phone in 2005? The speculation here is that in 1995 no one reading this write-up had any...

Silicon Valley’s Prosperous Existence Is the Surest Sign of the Fed’s Unctuous Irrelevance

A headline at Forbes.com last week indicated rising layoffs at Silicon Valley start-ups that are said to foretell a quiet summer for venture capitalists. On the same day, an A1 story in the Wall Stree...

OTC Is Back In Earnest, The Surest Sign Of A Renewed Energy Industry

Visitors to the annual Offshore Technology Conference in Houston walk through the exhibits … [+] Wednesday, May 4, 2011. More than 65,000 people and 2,000 exhibitors representing more than 110 c...