When You Lose Your Job, The Unemployment

Something Really Big Happened In The World's Wiring In The Last Decade, But It Was Obscured By The Financial Crisis And Post-9/11. We Went From A Connected World To A Hyperconnected World. I'm Always Struck That Facebook, Twitter, 4g, Iphones, Ipads, High-speech Broadband, Ubiquitous Wireless And Web-enabled Cellphones, The Cloud, Big Data, Cellphone Apps And Skype Did Not Exist Or Were In Their Infancy A Decade Ago.

I Am Always A Little Skeptical On The Water Thing Because I Have Been Hearing That For 30 Years, But One Year It's Going To Be True. With The Rising Populations, Yemen Could Be The First Country In The World, Or Sana'a The First Major City In The World, To Run Out Of Water, That's From Yemeni Hydrological Engineers And The United Nations. Sooner Or Later, All Of These People, From 7 To 9 Billion, All Of Them Want To Live Like America, Will Be Consuming So Much More Water That Some Of The Societies Will Hit A Wall Without More Sustainable Environmental Practices.

To Me The Smart Thing That Governments In The Middle East Would Be Doing Right Now Is Taking Their Oil And Gas Fountain - And The Smartest Ones Are To Some Degree - And Making Sure They're Investing In Their People To Unlock Their Potential - Men And Women.

Our Kids Are Going To Be So Angry With Us One Day. We've Charged Their Future On Our Visa Cards.

Our Bailout Of Detroit Will Be Remembered As The Equivalent Of Pouring Billions Of Taxpayers' Money Into The Mail-order Catalogue Business On The Eve Of The Birth Of Ebay.