Busted budgets, failing schools, overcrowded prisons, gridlocked government—California no longer beckons as America’s promised land. Except, that is, in one area: creating a new energy economy. But is its path one the rest of the nation can follow?
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The Lost Generation
The continuing job crisis is hitting young people especially hard—damaging both their future and the economy
Inside the App Economy
Beyond the goofy games is a world of useful programs that’s making fortunes and changing the rules of business
One Year in the App Store
So, can you make a living in the App Store? That’s what everyone really wants to know, right? Can a small indie team make some cool iPhone games and still pay their rent? The short answer is yes. The longer answer is, for two people, in western economies, with no kids or major health problems, […]
Person of the Year 2009: Ben Bernanke
Bernanke is the 56-year-old chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S., the most important and least understood force shaping the American — and global — economy. Those green bills featuring dead Presidents are labeled “Federal Reserve Note” for a reason: the Fed controls the money supply. It is an independent government […]
Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy — they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash
War of values
An epic battle has been raging over who can afford to live in San Francisco. The paper trail reveals that the city’s dominant landlords, the Lembi family of CitiApartments fame, bought up every building they could get their hands on, from the Tenderloin’s rattiest dumps to Nob Hill’s ritziest penthouses, with an audacious plan to […]
Climate Change – Building a Green Economy
How we can afford to tackle climate change.
Rachel Uchitel Is Not a Madam
[Not single-page] And the bottle girls who work at clubs are not prostitutes. As Tiger Woods’s very public escapades through the 21st-century courtesan economy suggest, it’s all much more complicated than that.
The Fifty-First State?
Going to war with Iraq would mean shouldering all the responsibilities of an occupying power the moment victory was achieved. These would include running the economy, keeping domestic peace, and protecting Iraq’s borders, and doing it all for years, or perhaps decades. Are we ready for this long-term relationship?
