Enter Burns' contest on your favorite financial management tips. A quarterly study of equity investments made by the venture capital community. The new economy utopia has gone kaput, reversing direction and undermining the stability enjoyed by Americans for much of this decade. Companies have shuttered. Consumer confidence seesaws.
Employees lose jobs and the stock market sadistically seeks new lows.
The roller coaster has left many Americans queasy and fearful of what could come next. Today's economy is in transition, some economists say, and transitions tend to be bumpy. When you are in a period of transition from one stage of economic development to another, there are major population and economic dislocations. Certain industries are going to diminish and create unemployment, but emerging industries will create jobs which will absorb people. He and others see a method to what seems like madness.