Jim Yong Kim is the American candidate for the World Bank president. The U.S. supported the European candidate for the IMF and the Europeans will support our candidate for the World Bank. I had assumed it was going to be Hillary Clinton. I was wrong and so were many others. Overall, an out of the …
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I am in Panama for the second time in seven years, and it certainly is a very different place today. Skyscrapers are sprouting up all over the city and there has been explosive growth here. Constant sunshine, no earthquakes, fabulous location, peaceful Costa Rica to the north and a natural buffer of the Darien region …
American power overseas comes from many sources, including the power of our ideas, our research, and our entrepreneurial private sector. One of our greatest investors in the American entrepreneurial model has been the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kauffman Foundation is at a cross roads as its former CEO, Carl …
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Daniel Runde 