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Most of Bill’s current writings appear on Forbes.com where he is a Senior Contributor.

4 Nov 2011

Big Data: Analytics Are Essential to Corporate Profits

Business Strategy

Analytics are essential to corporate profits today. (My past comments on this include a review of Competing on Analytics, a link to Thornton May's comments on analytics, and my own thoughts on the growing need …

27 Oct 2011

Economics of the Estate Tax: A New Approach

I try not to be too political in this blog, but this analysis of the estate tax is too good to ignore. It offers good advice even to people who want to soak the rich. …

26 Oct 2011

Banks and the Next Recession

Business Strategy Economy

A number of us economists are very worried about the prospects of recession. Most of us are not actually forecasting a recession, but on average we figure the odds are about 30 percent that we’ll …

25 Oct 2011

State Risk of Recession from Europe’s Financial Crisis

Business Strategy Economy

The greatest risk to the United States economy right now is a recession triggered by the European financial crisis. Even though my best estimate is that we will avoid a recession, the risk is certainly …

24 Oct 2011

Jobs Lost to Technology, Pony Express Edition

Economy

This weeks marks the 150th anniversary of two very noteworthy events. On October 24, 1861, the transcontinental telegraph was completed as the line from Carson City was connected in Salt Lake City. The prior week …

14 Oct 2011

The Best Economics Newsletter: October 2011 Edition

Economy

The Businomics Newsletter for October 2011 was released earlier this week. There's a link on that page to subscribe for free. Here's the front matter, not included in the link above: What’s New, October 2011 …

11 Oct 2011

Money Supply and the Case for Optimism about the Economy

Economy

I've mentioned several times that the recent money supply growth is a case for optimism (about the overall economic outlook and the economic outlook for manufacturing). A couple of sharp readers mentioned the growth of …

10 Oct 2011

Creative Destruction in the Banking Industry

Business Strategy

Mother Jones has a cool chart of bank mergers explaining how the big four banks (Citi, Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo) got where they are. (Click on chart for larger image.) Consolidation has …

7 Oct 2011

Recession and Businsss Planning: Questions for MBA Students

Business Strategy Economy

I'l be speaking to a class of MBA students this afternoon, and I'll begin by posing the following question: You're CEO. Your division heads are preparing budgets and plans for 2012. You gave them guidance …

5 Oct 2011

Steve Jobs

I sometimes hear that nobody ever dies wishing he had spent more time at the office. I bet that plenty of people die regretting the things they could have accomplished but didn't. Like, a guy …

4 Oct 2011

What Difference Would a Recession Make to Your Business Plan?

Business Strategy Economy

There's more talk about a new recession these days, even though nobody feels like we have fully recovered from the last recession. Goldman Sachs apparently says the probability of another recession is 40%. The Economic …

1 Oct 2011

High Wages for Low Skills?

Economy

Seth Godin has a very good blog post on economics, which makes the point: "It was the inefficiency caused by geography that permitted local workers to earn a better wage . . . ." There's …