Jeff Degraff

Recently, the Federal Communications Commission decided to eliminate most of the net neutrality regulations that required broadband providers to inform customers about how they manage their networks.

Forget net neutrality, regulatory neutrality is what we really need

Jeff DeGraff

The Next Idea In the early 1990s, I visited billionaire George Soros’ office in New York City to provide some direction on an investment his firm had...

While our largest financial institutions are lobbying to recover the freedoms they enjoyed before they destroyed the economy, entrepreneurs are innovating their way around them, creating a financial future that will make banks more and more irrelevant.

Michigan Business & Economy

Currency innovations like bitcoin could render bank deregulation moot

Jeff DeGraff

The Next Idea A few years before the Great Recession, I was an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank. I provided some limited advice on how to stimulate...

With all the talk of reforming health care, what if we're missing the bigger picture?

Michigan Healthcare

When it comes to health care reform, innovation will matter more than politics

Jeff DeGraff

The Next Idea With all the talk of reforming health care, what if we are missing the bigger picture? What if all this emotional debate about whether to...

"Professor Bloom cautioned that cultural relativism would have us mistake the teetering edges for the unmoved middle. He saw Plato, Marx (statue pictured) and Freud as the compulsory bedrock upon which more advanced ideas could be balanced by an independent mind."

Michigan Business & Economy

Americans now see the truth as relative. What comes next?

Jeff DeGraff

The Next Idea Thirty years ago, University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind . The book deconstructed higher...

Michigan Business & Economy

What’s coming next in 2017? Hint: It’s not autonomous vehicles

Jeff DeGraff

The Next Idea Can we stop with all the hype about self-driving cars? Yes, they’re on the way, but not in the new year. Autonomous vehicles will indeed...

Michigan Business & Economy

Brooklyn? A hipster haven. Silicon Valley? Tech innovation. What's Detroit's identity today?

Stateside Staff

The Next Idea If everyone knows of 20th century Detroit as the Motor City, what's Detroit's identity today and what should it be for the future? Every...

Michigan Business & Economy

U-M business program seeks to create "renaissance in innovation" in Michigan

Josh Hakala

The Next Idea“I would love to see a renaissance in innovation here in the state of Michigan” Those are the words of Jeff DeGraff, a professor at the...