On March 11, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the National Export Initiative (NEI) to “double our exports over the next five years, an increase that will support two million jobs in America.” This week, the White House announced that Obama would name 18 American executives to the Export Council, an advisory group that he created [...]

The rise of the middle class in China has fascinated international observers and mesmerized entrepreneurs and captains of industry for many years. Some see colossal-sized consumer markets for goods and services, while others see a threat to the country’s previously inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. While predicting changes like these may be “shooting fish in a barrel,” the [...]

Disaster relief workers from across the globe continue to arrive in Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake that hit the Caribbean nation last week. In addition to feet on the ground, the international community is also lending financial support — Europe has pledged more than US$500 million in relief funds and President Obama has [...]

After an attempted terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009, President Obama revealed that U.S. intelligence agencies had collected but then failed to piece together different threads of information about the suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Sound familiar? Just like the many warnings that were captured but went untranslated prior to 9/11, this [...]