But they fear that the speed of technological improvements today can wipe out broad categories of jobs faster than the economy can easily absorb and re-focus the blow.

FORBES: What If Automation Overwhelms The Need For Employees?

The things now causing great fear, like the questionable solvency of Greece, are just speed bumps en route to economic growth and higher profits.

FORBES: The Golden Question

Neighbours fear it will merely speed the flight of the drug industry, and refugees from violence, to their countries.

ECONOMIST: Breaking barriers in the Americas

The calm will now be shattered, they fear, by the construction of a ring road intended to draw traffic away from the chaotic city and speed goods to and from Santos, Brazil's biggest port.

ECONOMIST: Ancestral claims and modern interests