Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn\'t be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.

A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the \'bad\' crony capitalists from the \'good\' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.

Slavery is America\'s original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.