by Manny Rodriguez | Aug 27, 2011 | Forensics
The US has begun a long slog into the cycle of decay and vacuum of leadership that characterizes all great empires whose suns are fading. We have witnessed the hubris of endless cycles of war and conquest that have characterized the Roman, Greek, British and Spanish...
by Manny Rodriguez | Apr 12, 2011 | Forensics
Jobs: 1998, Commerce: 1999, Housing: 2002, Tourism, 2005, Mood: 2003. Those are the years to which the Great Recession has propelled South Florida’s economy. In a series entitled Economic Time Travel, The Miami Herald, here, and here, recently provided evidence of the...
by Manny Rodriguez | Apr 12, 2011 | Forensics
Can human behavior be accurately predicted, or is it too complex and nuanced to quantify and discern through modeling? Predictive modeling, the process by which a model is created or chosen to try to best predict the probability of an outcome, has lost credibility as...
by Manny Rodriguez | Feb 2, 2011 | Forensics
Miami-Dade County’s Jackson Memorial Hospital is Adrift in a Sea of Incompetent Executive Management The utter contempt that Jackson Memorial Hospital’s managing board, the Public Health Trust, and the Miami-Dade County Commission, have displayed for the...
by Manny Rodriguez | Jan 26, 2011 | Forensics
Post-Industrial Japan’s Developing Caste and Generational Inequality are Strangling Younger Workers In an ominous warning to other, post-industrial developed economies, Japan seems mired in an economic straitjacket decades in the making. A majority of its younger...
by Manny Rodriguez | Dec 8, 2010 | Forensics
Our national, economic betrayal is merely a symptom of much larger, personal betrayal As the current year fades and the new year begins, a trend continues to emerge in our society that is every bit as damaging as the economic fraud that has nearly plunged our country...
