Monday - Oct 8: Interesting Items

A Great NYTIMES Piece on the Patent Wars Afflicting Technology Companies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html

Baby Boomers and the US Economic Malaise

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/who-destroyed-the-economy-the-case-against-the-baby-boomers/263291/

Declining US Birth Rates – A Cause for Concern?

http://business.time.com/2012/10/04/why-the-falling-u-s-birth-rates-are-so-troubling/

Robert Samuelson of Washington Post – the Latest to Discuss Robert Gordon’s Paper on Long-Term US Growth Prospects

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-the-great-reversal/2012/10/07/01ec6ff0-0f0a-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html

Japan’s Economic Hope – Increased Female Labor Force Participation

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-women-s-equality-can-save-japan-by-ian-bremmer-and-susan-schwab

Corruption and (Lack of) Economic Growth in Southern Italy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/europe/in-italy-calabria-is-drained-by-corruption.html

Silicon Valley – Symbiosis of the East and the West

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/some-silicon-valley-style-pioneers-head-east