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Thomas Friedman To United States: Innovate Or Else

The blockbuster author and New York Times columnist talks with Fast Company about his new book, "That Used To Be Us," which contends that prioritizing innovation can turn around America's free-fall from superpower status.READ»

New Business Models Are America's Most Undervalued Export

I guess I should be worried, but I'm not sure why it's bad for the U.S. if brilliant entrepreneurs in India make life a little easier for their poorest countrymen, and eventually introduce their ideas to our economy. Isn't that called progress? READ»

Five Reasons to Make Hardware Instead of Software

We were told it was passé. The stuff they used to do in Detroit in the 1970s was not fit for the new Millennium. They'd say: You will never be the next billionaire, and George Soros will not invest because it's absolutely… the ...READ»

Getting Invited to the Green Party

One of Thomas Friedman’s messages in his latest book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded” is that the green economy is not having a real impact yet on the huge problems like climate change that we face.  In his chapter “205 Easy Ways ...READ»