Selling Their Futures: College Grads Promise a Slice of Their Future Income for Cash Now

By Kayla Webley, From Business Times, The start of Nathan Sharp’s story sounds familiar: In 2012, he found himself graduating […]

Smart People Share

Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader, Jeffrey Tucker For young people facing terrible job prospects and a generally bad economic environment […]

Three Myths about Marketing to China

When it comes to marketing in China, the rules change, argues Tom Doctoroff, CEO of Asia Pacific at advertising giant […]

The Middle-Income Trap Looms in China

China’s breakneck, double-digit growth rate is decelerating. That’s hardly a secret, but Liu Shijin, vice minister of the Development Research […]

China’s Next Steps: Six Smart Moves

By Sharon Kahn, Chazen Global Insights, In the annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Speakers lecture, cosponsored by Columbia University’s Weatherhead East […]

Sector-Focused Hedge Fund Sees Bubble in its Sector

Deerfield Management is a long-short, bottom-up hedge fund that invests in the healthcare sector only. It manages about 3 billion […]

What Olympic Sponsorship Means For Stocks

There’s no bigger world stage than the Olympic Games and no bigger international marketing platform. When the opening ceremonies kick […]

Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley

By Steve Blank, From www.steveblank.com/2012/05/21/why-facebook-is-killing-silicon-valley/, We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, […]

Brazil: Home of the next Mark Zuckerberg?

By Vivek Wadhwa, Washington Post, Silicon Valley has led the world in innovation and entrepreneurship because of its culture of […]

Taking the long view

From the Economist – print edition, Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owes much of his success […]