James Fallows nails it. My old pal and former boss from U.S. News & World Report, has made a very important statement in The Atlantic about “How America is Putting Itself Back Together” by criss-crossing it via private airplane and actually talking to people about what they are doing to improve their lives, economically and otherwise. Many […]…
About: William Holstein
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Chief Executive Article “Cybersecurity: Getting Serious About Safeguards”
as seen in Chief Executive Magazine | January 28, 2016
Attacks on large companies make headlines, but smaller companies, too, suffer cyberattacks. Here’s how to protect your business.
Chuck Provini knows he has a bright red bulls-eye painted on his back. As CEO of startup Natcore Technology, he hopes to develop technologies that will render the use of silicon crystals to make solar energy panels obsolete. Provini’s Rochester, New York-based company, which works with U.S. Department of Energy research labs, among others, to develop new technologies, represents a threat to China’s solar energy industry.
Major Disconnect on China in The Wall Street Journal
I had a bit of a neck wrench the other morning when reading my Wall Street Journal. On the op ed page, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, wrote a piece arguing that China is undergoing “structural reform.” He wrote: “To sustain growth, China is implementing structural reforms that place greater emphasis on […]…
Seven Years Since I Said GM Would Survive on Fox News
It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years ago this week that I was part of an incredibly intense debate about whether General Motors, Chrysler, and the American auto industry could survive on Fox & Friends with host Gretchen Carlson and Dan Calabrese, shortly after writing Why GM Matters. I was tense because I expected an […]…
More Economic Idiocy In The Wall Street Journal
I have a great deal of respect for the Wall Street Journal but a recent article by Greg Ip is an example of, once again, the blind leading the blind on what’s really wrong with the U.S. economy. The headline reads: Economic Theory Gets Its Day Right away, something is wrong. Why would anyone care […]…
