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You Are Not the Weather

Jeff DeGraff / November 29, 2017

Don’t most people notice the weather? Yes, but they don’t respond to it. In my home state of Michigan, there […]

A few years before the Great Recession, I was an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank. I provided some limited

A recent headline in the Financial Times read, “Vancouver seizes chance to lure Silicon Valley tech talent.” The mayor of

You may have missed it, but last summer Walmart got into some hot water with the Federal Trade Commission for

With all the talk of reforming health care, what if we are missing the bigger picture? What if all this

Thirty years ago, University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind. The book deconstructed higher

It’s said necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Innovation is often born out of crisis or conflict – a

Can we stop with all the hype about self-driving cars? Yes, they’re on the way, but not in the new

Jeff DeGraff / August 18, 2016

Innovation is about making our world better and new. While there are some regions that are dealing with the speed

Six presidential campaigns later, I’ve still got Bill Clinton’s iconic 1992 slogan running through my head: It’s the economy, stupid.