Taking a weekly look at what might go right, rather than focusing relentlessly on all that is going wrong.
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Amid the Doom and Gloom, a Quiet Revolution in Human Health
If you’re a news consumer, you know one thing for certain: The news is bad. Really bad. Wars rumbling. Economies crumbling. Millions taking to the streets. Elections brewing with bitterness and contention.
It was ever thus in the news busi...
AI Has Two Edges. We’re Only Looking at One.
Not a day goes by without a new story about the coming dangers of artificial intelligence. In the past week, we’ve had Bill Gates warn that AI is “the most dangerous technology humans ever invented,” the publication the Lancet write that AI...
Trump might be right about interest rates (but for the wrong reasons)
On Sept. 16, the Federal Reserve increased its target short-term interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, which is the usual increment when the central bank makes such decisions. This produced an immediate outcry from President Don...
We’re thinking the wrong way about the U.S.-China Relationship
Just when you think you know which way the world is spinning, it has a habit of spinning off in a different direction. Take China. For the past decade or more, conventional wisdom has held that the United States and China were plunging into...
Trump’s Accidental Gift to the World
A version of this article originally appeared in the Washington Post
It has not been a banner summer for the United States. The country is mired in a war with Iran with no graceful exit opportunities; a new round of tariffs threatens to fu...
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Zachary Karabell, a.k.a. The Edgy Optimist, is the founder of The Progress Network. He is also is a public speaker, a recovering academic, a former finance exec, and an occasional entrepreneur who has written at least one too many books.
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