US manufacturing is all the rage. The Presidential candidates talk a good game, says my guest, Alan Tonelson of the US Business and Industry Council, but they're short on effective policy.

There is an urban energy revolution underway. Cities around the world are going green, adopting sustainable energy technologies, fuels, and practices, and opening a host of related business opportunities in the process.

The nature of transactions is changing at an amazing rate. New models are emerging (and converging) in the way banking, finance, retail, communications and transport interact with people and money.

Macro uncertainties dominate the Q4 global business and investment outlook. Will 2013 be better? This week’s guest Paul Christopher is the chief international strategist for Wells Fargo Advisors.

With Europe under a cloud, China's economy slowing and conflict in the Middle East, global investors are embracing the US real estate market.

Who trusts the banks these days? Consumers? Business customers? Merchants? Certainly not regulators or taxpayers.

Last week we debated which policy approach will produce robust, sustainable economic growth in the US and Europe: austerity policy & trickle-down economics versus “bubble up” economics with broadly shared prosperity.

Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate highlights two antithetical approaches to growth: austerity economics vs shared prosperity. The same argument is raging between German Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande.

Is the 21st Century going to be an African Century? My guest this week thinks so. Dr.