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No Economic Growth Without Clear Property Rights How to turn dead capital into an engine of development

WASHINGTON – The almost unanimous mission statement of key International Financial Institutions (IFIs) devoted to development, along with national...

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...

Donald Trump And Nuclear Weapons Modernizing the American nuclear rsenal is the best way to keep the peace

WASHINGTON – Casual talk about nuclear weapons and their possible use is not recommended. Likewise, tough remarks about not being outspent...

US Public Education In Crisis Latest PISA scores underline the failures of U.S. public education

WASHINGTON – The international student proficiency scores gathered under the auspices of the Program for International Student Assessment, (also...

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...

Round One: US Shale Wins, OPEC Loses The US shale oil industry managed to become more productive and more efficient

WASHINGTON – Here is the news. The US shale oil industry, while badly wounded by the price war waged...

Is Exxon’s Obfuscation About Climate Change A Crime? Exxon apparently knew a long time that fossil fuels cause global warming but denied it in public

WASHINGTON – Here is the thing. We know now that ExxonMobil’s internal documents reveal that experts working for the...