Category Archive for 'forecasting'

Globalization or a Rebirth of Nationalism?

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

From 1945 until today, a combination of economic globalization and political internationalization has been the dominant characteristic of our time. Our generation, therefore, often thinks of globalization as the only model. But a brief glance of history shows that this is a terrible assumption. Through most of recorded time, the world existed under the sway [...]

The Monster At Our Door

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

By: Robert Samuelson Uncontrolled health spending poses ugly choices: raise taxes, gut other programs or run ever-larger and dangerous deficits Unless you’re a news junkie, you probably missed Mark McClellan’s announcement that he’ll resign in early October, after two grueling years as head of CMS. What’s CMS? Well, it’s the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]

Life In 2016 TWICE:

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Look out 10 years from now. What will the home audio industry look like? Wellikoff: Ten years from now we tiiay well see the following changes within our industry: • A weeding out of small tnanufacturers that don’t have access to advanced technology ot sophisticated design. • A weeding out of retailers that haven’t successfully [...]