Scientific breakthroughs help China’s agriculture “China has 19% of the world’s population but just 7% of its farmland. The country has lost more than 20 million acres of arable land since the mid-1990s. The good news is that China has made remarkable progress toward feeding itself in the last 30 years. The central government spent… Continua a leggere FORTUNE: TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
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CAPITALISTI CONTRO IL CAPITALISMO – UN PRODUTTORE SUI GENERIS
Ha scritto ‘Fortune’: “An executive who tries to talk his customers out of buying his products? It sounds nuts, but that’s what Yvon Chouinard loves to do. The outspoken, iconoclastic founder of Patagonia, maker of high-end outdoor clothing and equipment, believes that capitalism is on an unsustainable path”. Un altro imprenditore rosso? Oppure zelatore dell’ambiente?… Continua a leggere CAPITALISTI CONTRO IL CAPITALISMO – UN PRODUTTORE SUI GENERIS
FORTUNE: THE ECONOMY STINKS
“Absent substantive changes, federal debt will soon rocket to levels no country can bear. By far the largest elements of unsustainable spending are Medicare and Social Security. If you get the right people in the room, you can solve Social Security in 15 minutes, says former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan; Medicare is a far tougher… Continua a leggere FORTUNE: THE ECONOMY STINKS