Category Archives: Business

Shelly Palmer has the kind of smart, educated, future forward thinking that never failes to get my brain going It starts with belief How Do You See the Future?  by Shelly Palmer Tomorrow will be nothing like today. It may look and feel a lot like today -you’ll get up, have breakfast, exercise, go off […]

It’s 2027, and you’re walking down the street, confident you’ll arrive at your destination even though you don’t know where it is. You may not even remember why your device is telling you to go there. There’s a voice in your ear giving you turn-by-turn directions and, in between, prepping you for this meeting. Oh, […]

Ethereum, the world’s largest cryptocurrency after bitcoin, has caught the attention of Vladimir Putin as a potential tool to help Russia diversify its economy beyond oil and gas. Putin met Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum last week and supported his plans to build contacts with local partners […]

Business and nature will seek equilibrium. When China grows, they get rich and consumers want to buy more.  Why not sell them something? Can China and the Internet Save American Small Business? The giant e-commerce platform Alibaba and its charismatic founder, Jack Ma, have a plan to add a million U.S. jobs by enticing American […]

In Brief China’s central bank has developed its own cryptocurrency, which is now being tested. Cryptocurrencies have the potential to not only benefit China, but the rest of the world, due to their basis in blockchain. China’s central bank-the People’s Bank of China-has developeda prototype of a cryptocurrency that it could end up in circulation […]

Many business stories from the popular press appear to me as if they were written by someone without a basic understanding of business.  Wired got it mostly right when describing the news that Amazon bought Whole Foods. The fact is, the merge happened, and people are speculating.  I look at it a from the view […]