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Roubini Topic Archive: Sectors and Industries
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How America Builds Its Way Back to Balance
The following is an excerpt from The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power, with a forward by Dr. Nouriel Roubini, available in the United States on this week from Palgrave Macmillan and in Europe on 17 May. Moran, a former RGE vice president and geostrategy analyst, is now Director and Editor-in-Chief of [...]
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Ten Factories that Changed the World
As the U.S. lurches into a fourth year of depressed economic conditions and high unemployment, manufacturing has once again become a hot topic. As M.I.T. President Faith Hochberg has noted, the U.S. is good at inventing things – think Silicon Valley – but companies consistently look overseas for the advanced manufacturing processes needed to put them together [...]
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Lost in Space
The end of the U.S. manned spaceflight program (yes, wo-manned, too) has everyone looking back, including me. Here’s a post from one of my other venues, The Txchnologist, in which I lay out my choices for the 10 Greatest Astronauts (sic) of all time. Even the headline grates a bit: the 10 greatest on my [...]
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Much Ado About Space Shuttles
Nostalgia hit hard today as the space shuttle Atlantis touched down in Florida and, if you believe the hype, put an end forever to mankind’s efforts to glean what lay beyond the moon. This is all nonsense, of course, because the demise of the U.S. manned space flight program really only marks the beginning of [...]
