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Monthly Archives: November 2012

Book Review: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Tweet In the weeks leading up to the 2012 Presidential election it was nearly impossible to not hear the name Nate Silver. His projections of the election came to dominate the news cycle and he himself became the subject of the media zeitgeist. Silver was either lambasted as a charlatan by those who disagreed with […]

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Book Review: Entrepreneurial Nation by Ro Khanna

Friday, November 2, 2012

Tweet Four days before the 2012 Presidential election one enduring mantra from both candidates has been “jobs, jobs, jobs.” With unemployment in the U.S. hovering around 8%, the big question is how to get people back to work. Ro Khanna, a former Deputy Assistant to the U.S. Department of Commerce under the Obama administration, argues […]

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