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Rogues such as Iraq, North Korea and Libya are much more dangerous because they might be reckless or desperate enough to threaten or use their capabilities for offensive and not merely defensive purposes. Keeping weapons of mass destruction out of their hands is a critical challenge, which will have to be met by constant bullying--and occasional bribing, along with better control over the materials and expertise from the former Soviet nuclear program. Just as critical will be maintaining a strong and credible nuclear and conventional deterrent so that even if rogues should manage to get terrible weapons, they will...
...emphatically that stocks are undervalued today and that people could hold them and feel comfortable. You can use different assumptions and get a 55,000 Dow, but we are very comfortable with 36,000. And, in fact, most people don't have enough stocks in their portfolio...
Life cycles for people and plants, for businesses, industries, economies and entire civilizations have four distinct quarters: gestation, growth, maturity and decline. The Internet is the main event of the information economy's mature quarter, the last phase of it being marked by the widespread use of cheap chips and wireless technology that will let everything connect to everything else. Life cycles overlap. So the information economy will mature in the years ahead as the bioeconomy completes its gestation and finally takes off into its growth quarter during the 2020s...
...traded electronically. Continental bankers hoped the euro would compete with the dollar as an international currency of choice. Instead, the euro has fallen more than 20% against the dollar, a poorer showing than even the most pessimistic predictions. Betting on what kind of money people want to use is a dangerous way to invest...
...most common conceit about our future, of course, is that the kind of cash we will most want to use will be digital. But the paperless wallet has proved as practical as the paperless office. In late 1997, two New York City banks tried an experiment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They spent millions installing special digital-cash-card machines in all kinds of retail sites--hairdressers, retail stores, even taxicabs. Then they distributed--for free--smart digital cards. Surely, if digital cash was this easy to use, people would stop using the green stuff. Wrong...