@RyanNewYork

Ryan J. Davis is the 30 year-old Executive Director of Social Innovation at Blue State Digital. He's also the co-founder of The Four 2012.

He sits on the Broad of Directors of The Ali Forney Center, where he is the founding producer of their annual Broadway Beauty Pageant fundraiser. He's also on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project and the Board of Advisers of the startup TV Dinner.

He's also a director/producer, who lives in Brooklyn, NY and created the musical White Noise. Ryan writes about politics for The Huffington Post & The Hill. He has been a guest editor for Queerty and is the host of the podcast Gay History: Uncut.


Here Ryan blogs about politics, film, TV, history, religion, science, books, theater, digital media, LGBT issues, Bushwick & Williamsburg, New York City, and anything else he's interested in at the moment. Oh, and he'll probably talk a lot about himself.


This is a personal blog. Any opinions expressed here and on my Twitter represent my own and not those of my employer or clients.

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Posts tagged "economy"
The eurozone countries, the United Kingdom, and the Baltic states have volunteered as subjects in a grand experiment that aims to find out if it is possible for an economically stagnant country to cut its way to prosperity… The results of the experiment are now in, and they are equally consistent: austerity doesn’t work. Most of the economies on the periphery of the eurozone have been in free fall since 2009, and in the fourth quarter of 2012, the eurozone as a whole contracted for the first time ever.

Great piece by PBS on the dangers of automation for the world’s workforce. I’m not an optimist on the future of human employment, these are very real concerns.  

If I’m fortunate enough to become president, I’ll care very deeply about it getting better in a big hurry.

Mitt Romney, on the economy.

Note that Mitt Romney doesn’t care about the economy getting better unless he’s elected president.