The New Economy
People Skills Will Matter in Jobs of the Future

Opportunities still abound in the U.S. economy for people with the eyes to see them and the willingness to work a little harder than the cubicle class.

The New Economy
Pokemon Go Reveals Everything Wrong With Conventional Wonk Thinking

Instead of simply redistributing wealth and doubling down on short-term stimulus policies, we should be looking at ways to make it easier for people to start businesses and move jobs.

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The New Economy
Capitalism 2.0

A conversation about the economic transformations sweeping across the United States.

The New Economy
China’s Rust Belt Up In Arms

An ultimately necessary shift away from manufacturing has its human costs. Xi Jinping is walking a tightrope.

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The New Economy
A Period of Conflict and Clash

We should all brace for a period in world history in which the clash between new technology and new ways of doing things, on the one hand, and entrenched interests, on the other, is rising, sometimes explosively.

The New Economy
Playboy Nudes Go Bust

It’s an old story: Playboy is the latest 20th-century corporation forced to radically change its business model in response to 21st-century digital upstarts.

The New Economy
Manufacturing Picks Up Steam

If you are smart, quick, tough and determined enough, this is still a land of opportunity.

The New Economy
Our Measures of the Economy Don’t Work

Many and perhaps most of the ways that technology makes our lives better escape the statisticians, and this means that our economic discussions are increasingly removed from reality.

The New Economy
Will Paris Leave the Lights on for Airbnb?

The popular apartment-sharing site had twenty times more users in summer 2014 than in 2011, says Airbnb. But that’s not filling everyone with joie de vivre.

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Winter Is Already Here for Big Brands

Sales of packaged consumer goods like razor blades and cereal are down. The Fordist economy is long gone.

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