Brian Gongol

Companies can create their own innovations, or they can buy them. This kind of investment allows China to "buy" the know-how to make a car industry. And it's certainly not the only such investment.

The more we discover about neuroscience, the more we encounter really difficult questions -- like what to do when a person's brain is wired for psychopathy, but when they manage to keep it well-socialized. How much biological determinism are we ready to accept and accommodate within our justice system?

Amazon's advantage in the marketplace may be its willingness to not really make a profit. Great for consumers, terrible for investors.

They really seemed to have cooled down over the last several months, but they're back with a vengeance

With characteristic Midwestern behavior, one might say: They're just putting their heads down and getting to work