We are genetically programmed to grow, we are also genetically programmed to age… and die. Why is this the case? As much as I hate knowing that I am programmed to age and die (I´ve grown already) I can see how death is essential for evolution. Death, whether we like it or [...]

Obscenity
designed to incite to lust or depravity
So whatever incites lust or depravity is obscene, sex for example is obscene, or is it?
After living in America for 18 years and in Europe, for 10 I can argue differently. Sex is obscene in America, but in Europe money is more obscene. Spain [...]

I just read this in the latest McKinsey Report on Offshoring:
While 11 percent (161 million jobs) of the 1.46 billion service jobs worldwide could be performed remotely, only a small fraction of employment that could potentially go offshore will do so. The number of jobs companies are actually expected to locate offshore in low-wage [...]

Thirty years ago in China there was no competition. Even in 1988 when I first visited China there was very little competition. But after a failed experiment with Marxism the Chinese started in the late 80s a much more successful trial of Ricardean economics and…it worked. China as we all know has [...]

OpenBC is a super succesful web site that links business people around the world. It is relatively new and growing fast. I joined a month ago encouraged by my friend Ola Ahlvarsson from Sweden and did not think much of it. Surprisingly two days after joining an executive from a large multinational [...]

I lived in the States for 18 years. During that time I completed my schooling at NYU and Columbia University and my first 10 years as an entrepreneur. Overall I loved living in NYC, this city has some of the best universities and most remarkable entrepreneurial opportunities in the world. Everything is there. Unfortunately everthing [...]

Dear Martin,
I am writing to you to let you know that I am really impressed with your success. You are an inspiration to me. I am the type of person that cannot sleep at night wondering all of the things I could do. I always come up with tons of business ideas and solutions but [...]

I just came back from a tour of Israel and soon to be Palestine. During this tour I met with a significant number of top Palestinian and Israeli political leaders. I met with Vice Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, political leaders from Likud, Labor, Shaz, Mafdal, Shinui and others. I also met with [...]

The US need to maintain its military superpower position in order to convince other nations to continue to hold the dollar as its main foreign currency reserve in spite of its enormous trade and budgetary deficits.

Kirchner is doing something that no one has down in the history of Argentina in the last 50 years. He’s created a surplus. While all of his predecessors poorly managed, issued worthless money, and got themselves even deeper into debt, Kirchner taxes. He has taxed the country to a point where he now sits [...]