business

The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse

WThomasPayne — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:51:19 -0500

What do Katrina victims waiting for federal disaster relief, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, Ivy League professors waiting for taxis, and ghetto hustlers trying to find steady work have in common?

Innovation--The Missing Dimension

WThomasPayne — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:46:48 -0500

Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? How can the remarkable surge of innovation that fueled the boom of the 1990s be sustained?

War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream and

WThomasPayne — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:14:23 -0600

Lou Dobbs?s bestselling exposé of the silent assault on the living standards of ordinary Americans Millions of TV viewers have known Lou Dobbs for years as the Walter Cronkite of economics coverage, and now the anchor has become the preeminent champion of the common man and the good of the national interest, who tells uncomfortable truths in a voice that can?t be ignored.