This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. “Spurred mainly by rising demand in China and India, coal’s share in the global primary energy mix reached 28% in 2011—-its highest point since the International Energy Agency began keeping statistics in 1971.” Global […]
Archives for March 2013
Bankers Gone Wild In Europe
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. It will be difficult to undo the damage from Europe’s cavalier repudiation of the principle of deposit insurance as part of the EU and IMF-approved bailout of Cyprus’ bloated, high-flying banking sector. Cyprus has […]
President Obama Proposes Energy Security Trust
President Obama has laudably proposed putting $2 billion from federal oil and gas revenues over the next 10 years into a new Energy Security Trust to fund research on new technologies like better batteries and hydrogen fuel cells that would help get cars and trucks “off oil for good.”
Citizens Gain Say On Executive Pay
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. Swiss voters approved “some of the world’s toughest limits on executive pay” in a referendum this month that will give shareholders an annual binding vote on executive pay and prohibit certain kinds of bonuses. […]
Academy President Addresses MIT Enterprise Forum on the Future of Hydrogen Power
Listen to the full conversation about the critical need to move away from carbon-based fuels and the latest advancements in the field of Hydrogen power.
“Mainstream Media Meltdown!”
This article originally appeared in the World Business Academy’s monthly publication Currents in Commerce. Join our mailing list to receive Currents in your inbox. An excellent Salon article, “Mainstream media meltdown!” by Robert McChesney explores the accelerating decline of journalism, how the internet magnifies the tension between journalism and commercialism, and the threat this poses to democracy. The […]
