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Here's what we know about moving in America: We're not doing it like we used to. The share of single people and families moving between states is the lowest in half a century.But why? We cannot hope to know why 150 million households -- or 300 million Americans -- choose to move or not move across the country to find a new job or to make a new start. There are too many variables to name. But we can start to count them: Jobs play a role. Income plays a role. Affordable housing, and good schools, and cost-of-living, and urban culture, and space -- all these play a role.When we wrote about this "go-nowhere" trend in our article Generation Stuck, we received hundreds of responses ... Continue reading →

This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Much has been written recently about the venture capital "ecosystem"--whether there is enough capital flowing into the industry for it to thrive, or even stay afloat. As the 2011 numbers rolled in, many observers were aghast to see that VCs invested twice as much as they raised. Many tend to see this as a necessary correction following a long period of over-capitalization relative to the opportunity set--this is small consolation, though, to the entrepreneur fretting that there will be less capital from fewer sources when it’s time to raise the next round. Many entrepreneurs have asked me how to avoid being shut out from a shrinking pool ... Continue reading →

Now 73 years old, the owner of a thriving global enterprise, and the frequent subject of admiring profiles in the financial press, Chouinard remains an avid sportsman, as likely to be found surfing a break as presiding over a meeting. He’s fond of bragging about his MBA—that is, his philosophy of “management by absence.” He’ll disappear into the backcountry for months at a time, returning with ideas for how to improve the Patagonia products he brought along. Martijn Linden, Patagonia’s design director, told me he frequently finds Chouinard buttonholing one of the company’s designers, requesting tweaks to his wetsuit. Continue reading →

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., right, talks to Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, during the U.S.-China Business Roundtable at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 14 (Bloomberg) -- A departing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. employee mounted an unprecedented public attack on its "toxic and destructive" culture in a New York Times opinion piece, becoming the first serving insider to openly criticize the firm. Goldman Sachs said it disagreed with comments made by Greg Smith, identified by the newspaper as an executive director and head of the firm’s U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe. Gigi Stone and Christine Harper report on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs ... Continue reading →