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How does the world spend the next several years paying down and working our way out of debt while still affording some growth and investment? We get really, really efficient. Fortunately the cutting ‘edge’ future is here. Awesome.

The Edge, in Amsterdam, is officially the greenest office building in the world. It’s also the testing ground for a radical, highly connected new way of working, where employees have no set workspaces and can dial in their individual climate and lighting preferences via an app. Businessweek’s Tom Randall got a first-hand look at the inner workings of this office of the future. Here is a direct video link.

Adrian Wooldridge, managing editor at The Economist, discusses the role of central banks in the global economy and their ability to handle individual nations’ economic pressures.  Here is a direct video link.

Danielle was a guest this week with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets.  You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.