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Anthony Socci, Ph.D., is a Senior Science and Communication Fellow with the American Meteorological Society in Washington, D.C., where he is the host of a monthly series of briefings on environmental science and policy issues and is actively involved in improving the communication, reporting and coverage of science.
SHARE Tuesday, September 23, 2008 The Perverseness of Bailouts as Solutions
This article takes the view that the present spate of bailouts to our financial crisis provide little in the way of strategic long-term solutions to this crisis and worse, provides perverse incentives for financial institutions to repeat the past. Instead, what's needed is a deliberative process whose aim is to restructure financial markets away form ideological notions and replete with tangible and effective oversight.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 9, 2008 Missing in Action - Leadership and the Long View
This OpEd makes the claim that leadership matters greatly and that it's absence matters even more. We rarely anticipate, plan ahead and avert or mitigate problems but more often react to them after the fact with costly but temporary fixes. The absence of leadership and the long view are taking a profound and irreparable toll on all of us, and the tragedy is that it need not be that way.