Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth…

- Paul Achleitner

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that …

- Paul Achleitner

For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America a…

- Paul Achleitner

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we need more wo…

- Paul Achleitner

Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; th…

- Paul Achleitner

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asia…

- Paul Achleitner

A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction.

- Paul Achleitner

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

- Paul Achleitner

Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change,…

- Paul Achleitner