Llewellyn King
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COMMENTARY: New year, old problems
There are no new years, just new dates. → Read More
King: Farms in crosshairs of land development
In nearly every city in the United States, and many around the world, bulldozers are busy making dreams come true: Leveling land for a single-family home on a lot. → Read More
Llewellyn King: U.S. electric utilities face more demand, less generation
The nation’s electric utilities are facing revolutionary changes as big as any they have faced since Thomas Edison got the whole thing going in 1882. → Read More
Llewellyn King: COVID legacy – end of service from airlines to banks
What was for a while called the service economy was sent packing by COVID, as companies in droves found out they could serve less and get the same money. → Read More
COMMENTARY: Elizabeth, the Essential Queen
“The Queen is dead. Long live the King.” Some would add to that traditional and ringing appeal, “God save the monarchy.” It may not need saving, but the British monarchy won’t be the same. Queen Elizabeth II was a one-off, as they say. I clearly remember the death of King George VI and the ascent of the 25-year-old Elizabeth. I was living in a far corner of the British Empire, in Southern… → Read More
Llewellyn King: The roof over your head may be the next thing ‘Uberized’
The Uber model is changing America. First, it made a business out of the family car. Then it made a business out of the spare room or vacation house. Soon it might make a business out of the roof over your head. → Read More
Llewellyn King: New ‘hunger winter’ looms as Europe prepares to shiver
Even as Europe has been dealing with its hottest summer on record, it has been fearfully aware that it may face its worst winter since the one at the end of World War II, from 1944 to 1945. → Read More
Llewellyn King: Boris Johnson — the fall of an articulate incompetent
The best piece of business advice I have ever read was, “Beware the articulate incompetent.” It is important to business decisions but far more → Read More
King: Happy Birthday America! Now mind how you go
Martin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time for sorrow for him, as it was a time when good British yeomen farmers in the colonies revolted against a German king and his German mercenaries. → Read More
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Martin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time fo → Read More
King: It is the new age of creativity, despite shortages and runaway inflation
You could be excused for believing that everything is going to hell. We are living through a tumultuous time, and the next two years are going to be especially difficult with severe disruption to supply chains, runaway inflation and, worst of all, food shortages in much of the world. → Read More
COMMENTARY: Stop all the happy talk
There is a rough road ahead for the world, and our political class isn’t leveling with us. → Read More
Echoes of the Vietnam War: Journalists begin to take a stand
I remember the feeling in newsrooms back in the 1960s, as many journalists began to have doubts about the Vietnam War. In those big workspaces where newspapers come together and broadcasts are asse… → Read More
Ford F-150 Lightning Pickup Will Strike Down Social Barriers
A huge swath of American drivers and the electric utility industry are waiting for a pickup truck. Not just any pickup truck, but one that could change the way we get around and, for many, how we work. The pickup truck which is expected to cause the earth to move is the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning. Electric utilities are keeping a wary eye on it and so is an enthusiastic → Read More
Cash is disappearing, stranding the unbanked in crisis
An assuring legend is printed on U.S. bills: “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” I have always been glad to know that Uncle Sam is there for me; got my back, so to speak.… → Read More
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An assuring legend is printed on U.S. bills: “This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” I have always been glad to know tha → Read More
Llewellyn King: Your utility should expect the unexpected, it’s on the way
The flooding in New York City, the high winds in New Orleans, and the winter freeze in Texas usher in a new reality for the electric industry, showing how → Read More
Llewellyn King: The Battleground of the Internet: Lies Tangling with Truth
In this, the Information Age, truth was supposed to be the great product of the times. Spread at the speed of light, and majestically transparent, the worl → Read More
Llewellyn King: ‘Shove This Job’ is the theme of the Great Labor Reshuffle
Millions of Americans appear to be echoing the words of the Johnny Paycheck song “Take This Job and Shove It.” This is a sentiment that is chan → Read More
The Great Western Drought Will Affect Us All; Hydropower Threatened
The severe drought gripping the Western states looks set to reach into all lives in the nation and into every pocket.The unbearable heat for those living in the West, with record-high temperatures stretching from Wyoming to the Mexican border and from the Pacific to the Mississippi, will impact the rest of the country as well.Scientists have classified this monstrous baking as → Read More