Supply chain disruptions show a fragile, risky system | Jon Talton
It took COVID-19 to expose the dangers of our complex, overly centralized global economy, writes columnist Jon Talton. Relief is months away as the gridlock...
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Jon Talton
Talton writes about business and the Pacific Northwest economy in the Sunday Seattle Times.
Downtown Seattle’s troubles go beyond the pandemic | Jon Talton
The pandemic isn't the only thing keeping employees from returning to the office. Downtown has other all-too-visible problems, and ignoring its trouble will hurt all...
Historic opportunity to rebuild America’s infrastructure could be slipping away | Jon Talton
President Biden is trying to reverse decades of stagnant federal investment in infrastructure, which benefits the economy by improving productivity, supply chains and more. But...
Behind the debt-ceiling crisis, a deeper problem | Jon Talton
The federal government is again running up against an arbitrary barrier, with default and recession waiting. It shouldn't happen, writes columnist Jon Talton.
AI’s benefits are clustering in cities like Seattle. It’s tech inequality again. | Jon Talton
Artificial intelligence will reshape industries just like electrification, the internal combustion engine and the phone. Seattle is among the few immediate winner regions from the...
20 years after 9/11, Seattle and America transformed
Surprise after surprise, many of them bad, have marked the 21st century. Coming into the year 2000 the worry about the "Y2K bug." Time has...
Watch Seattle to see the future of organized labor in America | Jon Talton
Unions' long decline has gone along with the hollowing out of the middle class in the United States. But comeback efforts, and the roadblocks they...
Seattle and other cities aren’t dying, despite giant questions about the future of office work | Jon Talton
The delta variant has renewed speculation about how we will return to face-to-face work at offices. Plenty of people like remote work, but a silent...
Changes at Bartell are only the latest in Seattle’s losses | Jon Talton
Seattle has lost much of the dense, local fabric that made it delightful, Jon Talton writes. It goes far beyond the sale of our beloved...
The climate crisis is also a crisis of capitalism | Jon Talton
A new U.N. report makes it undeniable that humanity faces an existential challenge in global warming, writes columnist Jon Talon. But is our economic system...