Silicon Valley future as innovation hub at risk: report

LIKE most other government and multilateral agencies, not to mention economists in academia and elsewhere, the IMF entirely failed to see the global crisis coming. This is hardly news, so you might think that yesterday’s internal report into the fund’s performance in the period leading up to the global crisis might have little to offer (unless it tried to whitewash the fund’s failure, which it doesn’t).

After his departure from UBS, Andy Lees went radiosilent while setting up his own research company, AML Macro. We are now happy to be able to bring to our readers' the occasional report from Lees, who has traditionally been one of our favorite macro analysts, and whose insights are usually months ahead of the maintstream. Emerging Markets Unable To Continue The Heavy Lifting AML Macro Limited

That China openly manipulates its economic data, especially around key political phase shifts, such as one communist regime taking over for another, is no secret.

Silicon Valley is a place know for inventing the future. With the stock market feeling strong again Silicon Valley and global entrepreneurs are demonstrating where the future is going ? BIG DATA. This week that is the topic taking center stage in Silicon Valley at the OReilly Strata Conference (StrataConf.com)and on Twitter #strataconf. Data is ...

SV Angel founder Ron Conway made his fortune placing small, early bets on startups that proved to be huge winners. The best example is Google. Now, says an admirer in the Silicon Valley startup investing scene, Conway is making his money in a totally different way. What he does is…