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Smart glasses made by Epson with software developed by Apx Labs, are looking to attract big corporate clients over the next few years. 

The founders of PaperG are high-tech Mad Men focused on the digital ad industry of the future

Jared Gutstadt is a jingle punk. He is also a musician, a former TV editor, and the founder of the aptly named Jingle Punks, a music startup trying to cut through the red tape of the music industry.

Every president since Richard Nixon has said he will get us off of foreign oil -- they have all fallen way short.

If you canceled all government salaries, the entire U.S. Armed Forces and all expenses associated with them, along with anything the government funds as part of its current operations -- we still would not have a balanced budget.

We have two candidates for president and America would rather have ‘none of the above’. We have a Congress that America, except for a single-digit percentage, would like to ‘throw out’.

Our politicians have the unique ability to create a problem and a system -- and then run against the very problem and system they have created.

Iran is about to be forced to choose between a couple of different economic decisions that could have widespread implications.

Congratulations to the United States -- we now have the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

The question is not whether there will be a war between Israel and Iran. The question is, will it escalate? 

Former Kansas City Fed Chief Thomas Hoenig had warned about the possibility of a systemic shock at a time when we don’t have the ability to respond, due to already historic low interest rates. I believe we are facing the possibility of just that happening within the next year or two.

The fiscal cliff and what will really happen when it is reached is actually not the biggest thing in the news this week. 

The left doesn’t want fossil fuels and the right says ‘drill, baby, drill’. Neither has an energy plan deeper than their bumper sticker slogans.

Why does Vernon Hill think that act two of his epic banking career will be so successful? Based on success of act one -- Commerce Bank.

While millionaires and billionaires negotiate how to split up billions, the “common” folks are out of work. Sounds like what is happening on Wall Street? More like the NBA.

The Columbus Day holiday and the passing of Steve Jobs have a connection through history’s greatest eras.

To close the divide here we need jobs, and demand, not class warfare. And, if we don’t create demand and jobs, we could be inviting our own Arab Spring.

We are the only country in the developed world without an energy policy. Because of this, things like the Keystone pipeline on the Great Plains get put on the back burner.

There are two problems with the renewable-energy movement going forward -- President Obama and Al Gore. 

President Obama just made Speaker Boehner the new “President Bush,” meaning everything from the Biblical flood to Snooki is now going to be blamed on Boehner.