Earlier this month, I wrote about why I think the future of the American economy depends on the ingenuity of the American people. Today, I’d like to share some steps I think our country can take to ensure that future is a bright one.
The most obvious step, to me, is ensuring we have the best [...]

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One of the great characteristics of the sciences, from astronomy to psychology, from anatomy to zoology, is that every generation builds on the work of those that preceded it.
As Isaac Newton put it in 1676, “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
This regular knowledge transfer happens—most [...]

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As you know, the market hasn’t exactly been cooperating lately. But I still managed to find a stock to tell you about today. It’s Las Vegas Sands (LVS), which has appeared in Cabot Top Ten Weekly eight times since 2006 and three in 2010 alone! Editor Michael Cintolo wrote this about it earlier this month:
“Las [...]

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This week the folks in the Cabot office took a field trip down the road to Cabot Farm, where our company had its humble beginnings. We had a lovely lunch and got a tour of the grounds, complete with a stop to see alpacas (Max and Dakota, at right), turkeys and a flourishing vegetable garden. [...]

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In this week’s Stock Market Analysis Video, Cabot China & Emerging Markets Editor Paul Goodwin says we’ve been waiting for the market to declare itself but it hasn’t yet made a decisive move. Short-, intermediate- and long-term trends are all down, but not in a catastrophic way. Stocks discussed include VanceInfo Technologies (VIT), VMware (VMW), [...]

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