Can America Achieve a “Future Without Waste”?
America used to be the place where, as Emerson is said to have observed, the person building the better mousetrap could be assured the world would beat a path to…
It’s Up to the U.S. Government to Stop China from Monopolizing Our Smartphone Market
How the U.S. telecommunications industry helped America manage and get through the COVID-19 pandemic can be a lesson for other industries and for the U.S. government, which has been hamstrung…
Lessons from Crises Past
The unprecedented shutdown of much of the US economy that has been ordered by federal, state, and local governments is understandable given the need to slow the coronavirus’s spread. Too…
The Hospital Crisis of Our Making
We had to destroy the hospitals to save them. You could be forgiven for thinking that’s the upshot of the coronavirus lockdowns that have suspended elective surgeries and generally discouraged…
AS AMERICANS GROW RESTLESS, THE POLITICAL CLASS IS TRYING EVADE ACCOUNTABILITY
The COVID-19 crisis has taken America to places no one thought possible. The social lockdown ordered by so many governors to “flatten the curve” has turned into a kind of…
Will America 2.0 see a revaluation of labor?
Entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Cuban has coined the term, “America 2.0” to designate the new realities Americans will face as a result of the COVID-19 quarantine. One of those realities has been the…
Cashing in on the COVID Crisis
The American people usually put their differences aside in troubling times, pull together, and keep moving forward. The COVID crisis has proven the exception. Whether it’s because it set upon…
California Law Limiting Independent Contractors is Hindering Coronavirus Response, Experts Say
Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday rebuffed calls to suspend a controversial labor law that experts say hinders the state’s pandemic response and hurts vulnerable workers. State and federal…
What will happen on Main Street?
The total shut-down of American activity will soon be drawing to an end, one area at a time. When we look around us at the world of shutters and silence,…
PELOSI TO SMALL BUSINESSES: LET THEM EAT ICE CREAM
Students of history will no doubt recall how Marie Antoinette, when told the French people were starving and asking for bread, supposedly said: “Let them eat cake.” It is a…
Giving More Control to China Won’t Fix the U.S. Economy
Pre-coronavirus, America’s economy was booming. Now we have an economic pandemic but some proposed cures could be worse than the disease. The economic stoppage has been as drastic as chemotherapy…
United Airlines Must Help America Defeat COVID-19
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz sent a letter via email to United’s customers thanking America for the financial assistance that will help the airlines survive while air travel is on virtual lockdown.…
Sea-Air-Space 2020 Virtual Edition: U.S. Maritime Administration
As the Jones Act enters its second century, much is still misunderstood about the law and its impact on the U.S. economy and national security. This forum provides a fact-based…
Ukraine On Life Support
The innumerable pathways of history to successes or failures are richly paved with a plethora of knowledgeable, yet in many cases erroneous 20/20 hindsights by contemporary as well as future…
Coronavirus Makes The National Security Case For Rebuilding U.S. Maritime Power Compelling
When Rear Admiral Mark Buzby, head of the U.S. Maritime Administration, testified before Congress last year about strategies for bolstering the maritime industry, a striking fact was embedded in his…