Loren Thompson is entitled to his opinions, but distinguished publications such as Forbes and its readers should not confuse subterfuge with news commentary.
The stellar stock performance helps keep Apple front of mind in business commentary but Apple and Jobs are not necessarily winning with a brand or strategy perceived as innovative .
With this being said, the following commentary is truly not intended to be a political view point and is really just an attempt to highlight the high level key financial metrics of the U.S. Federal Government in a fact-based approach.
Further, may I suggest NOT using your powerful forum at Forbes to denigrate the Straus Institute with little commentary on the POSITIVE things Straus does.
Reinforcing the point that the fear campaign is driven not just by emails, but by expert commentary is this post The Trouble With Killer Robots by Bonnie Docherty.
Yet, his Instagram avatar was boldly flirting with a girl, prolifically posting inside jokes about his crush and inviting commentarynot only from his school friends, but also from a far-flung social network of kids from Connecticut to New Jersey who I am certain he's never met in person.