Articles by Richard Worzel
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Topics: Business, Demographics, Economy, Geopolitics, Society, General
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Unless America and Americans force a drastic change in the country’s direction, the American dream is dead, and America’s place as the leader of the world is over.
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Topics: Business, Economy, Environment, Geopolitics, Society, Technology, General
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The next 10 years will effectively settle the climate change debate, but not much else. What's more, we may be making policy in precisely the wrong way. Here's why.
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Topics: Business, Economy, Geopolitics, General
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The unfortunate possibility now exists that America will fail, financially, precipitating a renewed financial crisis, and plunging the global economy into an even worse recession.
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Topics: Business, Economy, Geopolitics, General
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What follows is a summary of a presentation I gave to a Canadian manufacturing group concerned about the financial and economic effects of the current crisis. I found it particularly interesting that I had just spoken to this same group eight months earlier, and the presentation was hastily arranged and held just seven days before Christmas, 2008.
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Topics: Economy, Geopolitics, General
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The credit crisis in the United States is by no means over, nor will the consequences be limited to America and Americans. And it could get really, really scary.
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Topics: General, Technology, Geopolitics, Economy
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What's ahead for 2007?
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Topics: Geopolitics, Society, General
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My fears about systematic vote fraud in the 2006 mid-term elections appear to have been groundless.
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Topics: Geopolitics, Society, General
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The up-coming U.S. mid-term elections may be a crucial test of whether America is a democracy, or whether elections are rigged.
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Topics: General, Geopolitics, Technology, Business, Demographics, Economy
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What's ahead for 2006?
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Topics: Society, Geopolitics, Environment, General
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The immediate effects of hurricane Katrina - death and destruction - are obvious. The long-term consequences and downstream effects may be more important.
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Topics: Biosciences, Economy, Geopolitics, General, Technology
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The outlook for 2005 in a range of areas.
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Topics: Biosciences, General, Geopolitics, Society
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The coming battle between health care practitioners and the government of Ontario is an important indicator of the problems that all developed country governments are going to have with their health care systems.
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Topics: Biosciences, Business, Economy, Geopolitics, General, Technology
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The outlook for 2004 is generally very good. However, there are some really nasty land mines ahead of us that could produce disaster.
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Topics: Economy, Geopolitics, General
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America's wrong-headed stance over steel tarrifs is just the kind of sticky, foolish issue that could trigger a global trade war - and precipitate a new Great Depression.
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Topics: Geopolitics, General
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It seems odd that the global community is criticizing the United States instead of a known mass-murderer - until you look at the context. What's really going on here?
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Topics: Geopolitics
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China has the largest population in the world, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and a national government that is stable (no matter what you think of their policies). They are almost always the first country mentioned in any discussion of who might compete with the U.S. for world economic and military dominance in the next century.
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Topics: Geopolitics
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The biggest issue facing governments is that they risk becoming irrelevant or ignored if they can’t increase the speed with which they respond to changes in the real world. That might or might not dismay many of the civil servants and elected officials who comprise governments. Those who are conscientious, and who chose their careers precisely because they wanted to make a difference will be dismayed by such a prospect.
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