People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California…

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Judith Scott-Clayton is an assistant professor at Teachers College, Columbia University.A continuing refrain of Occupy Wall Street protesters has been “student debt is too damn high,” as…

Right now consumers are pushing companies — many large, smart, companies — down a death spiral, a race to the bottom. Groupon, LivingSocial and coupon sites are the catalysts that have set this trend on fire, but it all started with the consumer “free” mentality. The idea that companies are making too much money screwing over the “little guy” with high prices. Increasingly $0.99 has become too much money to pay for…