On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The Xbox 360 is the best game console ever designed. It's fast and powerful - games look as good on the 360… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
