Appeared on Substack on December 21, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/us-is-losing-and-china-is-gaining?r=o7w77 While the current manifestation of AI is truly transformative, it comes with a myriad of societal challenges that need to be acknowledged and dealt with. Otherwise, we will be letting the proverbial genie out of the box and could be dealing with cleaning up dystopian messes. AlreadyContinueContinue reading “U.S. is Losing and China is Gaining influence in Managing Global AI Risk”
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Is China Doing Better Than the U.S. in AI?
Appeared in Substack on 10 December 2025: https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-better-than-the-us?r=o7w77 The other day at dinner with a recent Rhodes Scholar who got his degree from Brown University, we had a very interesting conversation about the state of artificial intelligence, especially its recent impact and influence. When the topic turned to AI developments in China, this young manContinueContinue reading “Is China Doing Better Than the U.S. in AI?”
The AI Bubble – Redux: Hubris, FOMO and Voodoo Economics
Appeared in Substack on November 22, 2025. https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/the-ai-bubble-redux-hubris-fomo-and?r=o7w77 Artificial Intelligence will surely transform business, education and society in significant ways in years to come. However, the current exuberance about AI, especially in the financial world, is way over blown. In our 2004 book “Beware the Winners Curse” Hank Lucas and I provided compelling evidence forContinueContinue reading “The AI Bubble – Redux: Hubris, FOMO and Voodoo Economics”
Are We Heading to an AI Bubble?
Appeared in Substack on November 7, 2025: https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/are-we-heading-to-an-ai-bubble?r=o7w77 In the roaring 1990s, digital technology was having a heady time. The Internet was becoming ubiquitous, telecommunications technology was making significant advances, there was a “land rush” to obtain wireless spectrum, and dot com companies were popping up like mushrooms in a damp wooded forest. Enormous amountContinueContinue reading “Are We Heading to an AI Bubble?”
China Will be Hurt by Trump’s Tariffs
Appeared on Substack on May 19, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/china-will-be-hurt-by-trumps-tariffs?r=o7w77 All the pundits have come out very strongly to argue that the trade war that Trump has started with China will end up hurting America in multiple ways. What is left unsaid is that the trade war will hurt China significantly as well, slow down its growth,ContinueContinue reading “China Will be Hurt by Trump’s Tariffs”
Epstein Files Are a Distraction from the Trump Family Finances (LONG READ)
Appeared on Substack, October 19, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/epstein-files-are-a-distraction-from?r=o7w77 For the past couple of months, both the media and the Democratic congressmen have been pounding on the Epstein Files. Several high-level people in the Trump administration have been in the middle of the back-and-forth with congress on whether and when the Files will be released, the contentsContinueContinue reading “Epstein Files Are a Distraction from the Trump Family Finances (LONG READ)”
Universities are Slip Sliding Away on Their Higher Purpose
Appeared on SUBSTACK on September 15, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/universities-are-slip-sliding-away At dinner a few days back, an eminent MIT professor and good friend told me almost excitedly that his institution was not touched by the Trump administrations attack on academia, mainly because they had signaled that they would make a deal even before the onslaught. Stanford wasContinueContinue reading “Universities are Slip Sliding Away on Their Higher Purpose”
The United States Might Come Off Worse in Its Trade War with India
Appeared in SUBSTACK on October 2, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/the-united-states-might-come-off The trade war that the United States has thrusted on India reached a new high in August. What started as a 25% tariff on most Indian goods, escalated to 50% effective on August 27th, 2025, ostensibly because India was buying Russian oil. Some of the sectors inContinueContinue reading “The United States Might Come Off Worse in Its Trade War with India”
Why Does Academia Have Radical Left Faculty? (Long Read)
Appeared in Substack on August 28, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/why-does-academia-have-radical-left?r=o7w77 According to Donald J. Trump universities are full of “radical left” faculty and that educational institutions are “obsessed with indoctrinating America’s youth” about the world with leftist views and perspectives. Targeting “Marxist maniacs and lunatics”, President Trump has vowed to “fire the radical Left accreditors” and replaceContinueContinue reading “Why Does Academia Have Radical Left Faculty? (Long Read)”
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are the Pillars of the American Value System
Appeared in SUBSTACK on June 16, 2025 https://anandanandalingam649613.substack.com/p/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-are?r=o7w77 When I was Dean of the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, I came to the realization that there were no tenure-track women faculty members in the Finance Department of over twenty-five professors: zero! Finance was the largest major among business undergraduates at theContinueContinue reading “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are the Pillars of the American Value System”
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