Top Risks of 2018 End-Year Wrap-Up
How has the world been doing in confronting its most obvious but unresolved risks in 2018? This was the third…
Browsing: The Horn
Why You Should Care that the University of Illinois Is Worried about Chinese Student Enrollments
You may have read the news that University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign recently took out an insurance policy to protect itself from a…
What Skydiving Has to Do with Tax Hikes
As George H.W. Bush is laid to rest, Americans mourn a man who – even to many of those who…
Could Social Investment Stipends One-Up Universal Basic Income?
The central paradox of the inexorable advance of artificial intelligence and automation is that some of the most important ways…
How Far Would You Go for Water?
This is the second installment of Michele Wucker’s new LinkedIn weekly series, “Around My Mind” – a regular walk through…
The 4th Industrial Revolution: Promise and Pitfalls
Spending last week in San Francisco for the 2018 World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders and Alumni Annual Summit, I…
Trade War Brings Asia’s Gray Rhinos into Sharper Focus
It was just a year ago that Argentina issued a 100-year bond which offered a dollar coupon of less than eight percent…
Not “If” but “When” and “How Bad”?
With the US stock market hitting new highs again and again and extending the length of the bull market to…
2018 Top Gray Rhinos Mid-Year Update
When things are relatively quiet is the best time to step back and take stock of where you are. So…
Some Thoughts on Global Catastrophic Risks
Who gets a say in how the world deals with global catastrophic risks? I spent a few days in Stockholm…