Michael Mandel
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Which States Are Winning the Business R&D Race?
The National Science Foundation collects and releases a veritable fire hose of science- and innovation-related statistics that never get the attention that they... Read »
AT&T’s (T) Investment Challenge to Corporate America
The economy is improving, but the U.S. is still struggling with an investment drought. Capital spending by business is 26% below the long-term trend, and has not... Read »
The Next Choice: A High-Growth Economy vs Long-Term Stagnation
As soon as the results of the election are known, President Obama or President Romney will be beset with a list of difficult decisions: What to do about the fiscal... Read »
One Reason Why Unemployment is Dropping
It’s difficult to reconcile the sharp drop in the unemployment rate with the relatively slow growth in measured real GDP. Some have criticized the unemployment... Read »
Internet Firms Have the Fastest 4-year Job Growth
Over the past four years, which U.S. industry has produced the fastest job growth? The internet publishing, search and social media industry—from giants such as... Read »
Why the Tech Boom Has Not Yet Entered Bubble-land
There seems to be a theory going around that the current tech boom has entered into bubble territory. In a piece entitled “Is the dot com bubble about to burst?”,... Read »
Why Bill Gross is Wrong: Innovation and Long-term Returns on Equity
Bill Gross of Pimco has just written a piece where he argues that the real return on stocks in the future will be much lower than the long-term historical average... Read »
Libor Scandal and Public Data Manipulation
I found myself reacting to the Libor scandal more strongly than a lot of the earlier revelations of financial institutions misdeeds. First, the banks were just blatant... Read »
An Achievable Onshoring Goal: 4 Million Manufacturing Jobs
As Obama and Romney debate offshoring, many commentators have pointed out that estimating the total job loss from offshoring is difficult. However, we can answer... Read »
Domestic Computer Manufacturing: A Lot Smaller Than We Thought
The moral of the story: Why we need to spend more money on economic statistics, not less. For the past couple of years, the BEA and Census Bureau have been reporting... Read »
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