Some writings have turned the world upside down. They toppled tyrannies. They sparked revolutions and ennobled humanity. The Magna Carta. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” …

I was just reading about how the median wage is lower today than it was a decade ago. Ouch. The cause, says this article, …

Digital technology is reinventing our whole world, in service of you and me. It’s free enterprise on steroids. It’s bypassing the gatekeepers and empowering …

It’s fashionable to put down commercial culture, but, when you think about it, this makes no sense. Commerce is the driving force of human …

Fed Chair Ben Bernanke continues to stand on a stack of Lord Keynes’ General Theory and proclaim that the world needs low interest rates …

Sorry, but I dreaded my visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Mich. It had to be done, …

Growing up in the Cold War, we tended to look at Russia as a nightmare slave society that was utterly and completely foreign to …

“The private economy is doing fine.” Those were the words of President Obama that unleashed a torrent of political hysteria. The Romney campaign immediately …

Shanghai’s leading code slinger, David Veksler, who is also a good friend and long-time collaborator on all things digital, has come up with something …

Many people these days openly express regret about the digital age. I find their complaints vacuous: They say we are losing the art of …

My link to my family past is a photograph taken in dusty, desolate West Texas, the one in which my grandmother on my father’s …

The financial pages and popular culture are often strangely aligned. For example, many young people today are consumed with the seeming emergence of a …

I never tire of looking out the windows of airplanes. For all of human history until just about the day before yesterday, no living …

Economic trends today are a litany of awful: high personal debt, stratospheric government debt, persistent trade deficits, declining living standards, government out of control, …

There’s a national park close to my house that has a large lake and all the swimming accoutrements left over from the 1970s. It’s …

“I just joined the Club!” That’s the whole content of an email I received from a very old friend who is very special to …

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here’s one. It is called the political system. It is nothing …

What’s great about POM Wonderful? Sure, this pomegranate juice tastes great. POM is one of the few drinks that seems to have the same …

The great recession continues in so many ways but online commerce is booming as never before, increasing in the last quarter of 2011 at …

You might have noticed that lots of people are really down on the so-called 1%. It drives many people, especially politicians, absolutely bonkers that …

The United States is home to a gigantic socialist sector, larger and with a greater reach than any in the world, and it is …

Dreamers and accountants — they say that both types of people are necessary for a great business. One without the other is a dead …

Let’s say that Rajat Gupta, former director at Goldman Sachs on trial for insider trading, is toss in the slammer for passing on information …

Now that hysteria over my original Brazil column has died down, let me add some comments and reflections about it and what gave rise …