Arts Meets Science and Chemistry Wins the Day
(The New York Times) - Forgive Paul M. Romer for turning two of the greatest days of his life into a one-day event. He was…
Thought Leader: Private: Paul Romer
(New York Times) - Just after Barack Obama’s election in November, Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, made this memorable statement to an interviewer: “You…
Thought Leader: Private: Paul Romer
(New York Times) - Shortly after the 2009 coup that overthrew Manuel Zelaya, Honduras’s newly elected president, Porfirio Lobo, asked his aides to think big,…
Thought Leader: Private: Paul Romer
Recommendations for World Bank
(Financial Times) - As the World Bank’s board considers nominations for the institution’s next president (Donald Trump is expected to nominate David Malpass, the US…
Thought Leader: Private: Paul Romer
(The New York Times) - Putting a levy on targeted ad revenue would give Facebook and Google a real incentive to change their dangerous business…
Thought Leader: Private: Paul Romer
(The Boston Globe) - To lose 21 members of Parliament may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose your own brother looks like carelessness.
Thought Leader: Niall Ferguson
(The Atlantic) - Whatever else he has been through in his career, John Bolton is a patriot. He has been impelled by a strong vision…
Thought Leader: David Frum
Here’s how illegal vapes might be making people sick
(CNBC) -Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and currently a member of Pfizer's board, discusses the five deaths that have now been linked to vaping.
Thought Leader: Scott Gottlieb
Former FDIC Chair on the Fed’s plans for a real-time payment system
(Yahoo Finance) - Former FDIC Sheila Bair discusses the Federal Reserve's plans to speed up money transfers with real-time payments.
Thought Leader: Sheila Bair
Conservative Leader Matt Schlapp: What I saw in Hong Kong
(The Hill) - American Conservative Union Chair Matt Schlapp describes what he saw on the ground in Hong Kong during their latest protests.
Thought Leader: Matt Schlapp
Throwing Money at Poor Communities Won’t Fix Them
(Newsweek) - When I reread Theodore White's Making of the President 1972, the biggest surprise was not political, it was in policy.
Thought Leader: Newt Gingrich
A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man
(The New York Times) - Amid the desert orgies, Paul Romer investigates a provocative question: Is this bacchanal a model of urban planning?
Thought Leader: Private: Paul Romer