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Why Is Montenegro Joining NATO A Big Deal? A small country with practically no armed forces is now a symbol of the East-West divide

WASHINGTON – With the US Senate approving by a huge margin Montenegro entering NATO, the US-led security pact, (only...

Wanted: Credible Centrist Political Leaders There are non partisan elected officials who can propose an agenda of growth and opportunity for America

WASHINGTON – Recently, a Democratic party elected leader of national renown argued in a public forum that in order...

Wellness Programs Will Transform US Health care Doctors should be rewarded for teaching people how to stay healthy

WASHINGTON – Undoing Obamacare is proving to be a lot more complicated than what confident President Trump (and the...

No Real Development Without Economic Growth – Part 2 No progress without focus on what it takes to foster enterprise and growth

WASHINGTON – International development practitioners focus on policies through which they can eliminate or alleviate poverty, the visible manifestation of...

No Real Development Without Economic Growth – Part 1 Development practitioners wrongly believe that poverty can be eliminated without building robust enterprises

WASHINGTON – International development is generally defined by practitioners of this craft as “the fight against poverty“. I totally disagree...

Obama Is The Big Loser In This Election The hard reality is that most American voters do not care about his legacy

WASHINGTON – Outgoing President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle actively campaigned for Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. In...

How The US Fed Damaged The American Economy Too many years of zero interest rates caused a stock market bubble

WASHINGTON – I indicated a while back that whoever would be elected President of the United States on November...

The Tragedy Of The Uneducated Poor in America The poor cannot get a good education. And so, they stay poor

WASHINGTON – Much has been said about the “crisis” of American public education. Indeed, if we look at the...

First Comes Growth Then New Jobs in our politically correct word jobs can be willed into place, whatever the economic fundamentals

WASHINGTON – Every day I walk by a giant banner hanging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce imposing building...

Can Clinton Unify Left And Center Against Trump? The candidate's message is that she is on the left but also a pragmatic doer who will seek unity. Will this resonate with voters?

WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s performance at the Democratic National convention in Philadelphia was “mission impossible”. Now the anointed presidential...