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Are America's private railroading glory days gone forever? The folks at Freakonomics have asked me to contribute to a “Quorum” on Amtrak and whether it can ever be profitable. Maybe I was a sucker, but it looks like I hewed closer to the question that some of the other contributors…. Continue reading at [...] January 5th, 2012 | Tags: energy, regulation | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Policy, Style & Design, Travel, Vehicles | Comments are closed |  printable viewThe sky's the limit for Dumbo! Last night I wrote a blog post about tech development in New York City, arguing that before the city pours money into a science campus for Cornell on Roosevelt Island, its planners should make more room for entrepreneurs in existing tech hubs like Union Square and Dumbo. …
December 20th, 2011 | Tags: real estate, regulation | Category: America's Most Promising Companies, byline=Stephen Smith, Economics, Entrepreneurs, Fact & Comment, Innovation & Science, Logistics & Transportation, Management, Places & Spaces, Policy, Social Media, Style & Design, Tech, Techonomy | Comments are closed | printable view |
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Italy’s Austerity Plan Spurs Transport Deregulation
There’s been a lot of handwringing by American lefties over the austerity plans that Germany is asking indebted eurozone governments like Italy and Greece to implement in exchange for bailouts, but many aspects of the plans – especially labor market deregulation – are long overdue no matter which side if the aisle you sit on [...]