Happy 50^th birthday, Medicare! In just 15 years, you’ll qualify for federally funded health insurance. Well, maybe. The fiscal situation of the program is growing increasingly delicate, so don’t hold your breath. 

On this monumental occasion, one is reminded of a quip so often found in birthday cards: Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. 

This may seem like a passing wisecrack, but there’s a deep truth lurking beneath the humor. And it applies well to Medicare: The program has grown old, and it’s time it grows up. ...

President Obama and the Republicans have finally agreed on something: the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

The TPP, as it’s come to be known, is a mammoth proposition that would build new economic bridges between the U.S., Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Vietnam and more than a half-dozen other nations. Yet despite this surprising agreement between the President and the GOP...

As the 2016 American presidential campaign gets rolling, it will be interesting to see how the candidates outline their strategies for dealing with an aging population. The candidate who gets it right will not talk about how to deal with more “old people,” but how to drive economic growth as aging demographics shape productivity, labor participation and financial planning.

Indeed, a central issue with America’s aging population –...

After more than 100 years in print, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) on Apr. 27 officially goes all-digital. In its final print edition three days earlier, Turning The Page, the editors announce: “Today we say goodbye to an old friend, a morning habit for generations. This is the final newsprint edition of WWD…Today, there’s nothing cyclical about news. It’s Instant Media. A global Niagara of information in a river of technology…” To which one can only say, “Duh!” 

But as yet another publication surrenders to technology’s disrupting impact on information, it...