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...numbers highlight a growing debate among economists over whether the rules of the economy have changed. While the Fed remains wedded to the orthodoxy that growth above 3.5 percent must eventually spawn inflation, a number of other economists believe that productivity increases brought on by the new high-tech economy have fundamentally altered the rules, allowing for higher growth rates without inflation. "The latest numbers suggest the Fed has to be more open to the idea that the economy may have changed fundamentally," says Baumohl. "If they remain locked in to their current thinking, there's a danger that they...
...story line for Bill Clinton's visit to India this week, the first by an American President in 22 years, is a travelogue in the "new," high-tech India. But India's realities are far messier. The nation's ongoing cold--and at moments hot--war with Pakistan became more dangerous still when both nations tested nuclear weapons in 1998. And nowhere are the contradictions of globalization more manifest. India's economy is growing at 6%, and software exports are increasing 50% a year; last month an Indian technology magnate--Wipro's Azim Premji--became one of the world...
...yacht packed with vacationing millionaires off the coast of St. Bart's is an unlikely laboratory for social-policy reform. So perhaps it was the Caribbean sea breeze or the free-flowing 1945 Mouton-Rothschild that got Michael Saylor, the 35-year-old CEO of the high-tech company MicroStrategy, thinking about how to amend the inequities in higher education. He shared his thoughts over sea bass and chocolate souffle. "And by the end of the evening," he recalls, "I knew I'd hit on the next big thing in education...
...probably,'" says Kaufmann. "We've seen these prices before, although not for so sustained a period. But in and of themselves, they won't create any adverse reactions." That sanguine attitude is due, in large part, to the general shift in the economy from oil-dependent heavy industry to high-tech business...
...secret, says Sergey Brin, 26, Google's Russian-born co-founder, is its unique search technology. In a kind of high-tech popularity contest, Google ranks search results not by how frequently or prominently the search term appears on a given page but by how often other pages on the Web link to the page with reference to that term. As a safety measure, Google also analyzes the words around the link to make sure they're relevant to the original query...