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“Reading through Art Kleiner’s interview with you on ‘The Finer Points of Global Economics,’ I once again found myself hoping that your readers in DC are getting permission to share this with key people in the White House and Congress.

 

“It is one of the more cogent analyses I’ve read, both looking back at what got us here and looking forward to the next 40 years of creating the new IP-based energy economy.”

 

– Rick LeFaivre, Venture Partner, OVP Venture Partners; and Director, New Technology Ventures, University of Washington Center for Commercialization

 

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» How to Save Microsoft

 

The Amazing Non-Producing Stock Machine

 

How can you consistently increase company performance year after year, without any benefit to your company’s stock value?

 

This has got to be the question that is driving Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer crazy.

 

Even worse, when he announced a 6% revenue jump at the end of last quarter – with a 35% bump in net income – the stock immediately dropped 4.5%. Microsoft, in the eyes of the investment community, has real problems. Newsweek recently called for Ballmer’s ouster, and theirs is not the only voice in this choir.