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The Changing Role of Leaders and the Workplace in Our High-Tech Future

by Erik Kain on January 3, 2012

Predicting the future is difficult. We do it anyways because, among other things, it’s fun. It also helps us think about the present, and the way that our evolving technologies are changing the world now. Yesterday I asked whether or not technology could change our most stubborn, stagnant institutions – from corporations to governments. Fortune [...]



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Game Over for GamePro Magazine

by Erik Kain on November 30, 2011

Bad news for readers and employees of the long-running gaming magazine: After 22 years of publication, popular gaming magazine GamePro‘s U.S. operations have been shut down by its parent company IDG, VentureBeat has learned. Multiple sources within the magazine confirmed that GamePro employees, including executives, received phone calls first-thing this morning with the dreaded news. GamePro’s U.S. website, [...]



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We Shouldn’t Try to Save the Housing Market

by Erik Kain on October 24, 2011

President Obama announced a new program to help underwater homeowners who are struggling to keep up with their mortgage Monday. The basic premise of the plan is good: borrowers who are up to date on their loans would be able to refinance their mortgages at current historically low rates. Since many homeowners are seeing the [...]



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Does Regulatory Uncertainty Lead to High Unemployment?

by Erik Kain on October 5, 2011

A common theme one hears lately is that regulatory uncertainty and government regulations imposed by the current administration are killing jobs and hurting new hiring. While I’m fully aware of the many bad local regulations that really can create barriers to enter markets and make self-employment difficult, from silly licensing schemes to laws preventing working [...]



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