Knox in Box
Rustbelt refugee.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washbizblog/2008/11/value_added_trying_to_get_ahea.html
Friedman is worth listening to. He is a respected investment mind around Washington. Some speak of him in the same breath as Bill Conway, the co-founder and investment guru at The Carlyle Group, the District-based private equity firm.
Friedman adds value. He can riff on the miracles of modern productivity one minute (he believes cell phones are transformative because they allow for the instantaneous movement of money and ideas) and then expound on the economic law of increasing returns, which holds that once a society chooses a certain path such as getting behind the internal combustion engine, that path gains a powerful foothold in society and is very hard to dislodge