I was introduced as "a blogger" when I gave an after-dinner speech last week to the annual meeting of Russell 20-20 Association, a group of the world's largest investment managers and pension plans, sponsored by the Frank Russell Company (my speech, "The Economics of Mass Destruction," can be viewed on the Trend Macrolytics site). The president of the Frank Russell Company, who introduced me, didn't know what a "blog" is -- and neither did anyone else at my table, which included one of the most senior faculty member of Stanford University (where the meeting was held), the manager of the...