July 2014 – Schirach Report

In Our Economic “New Normal” Chronic Under Performance Is OK Both In America and in Europe societies are getting the message that slow growth is the best we can get

WASHINGTON – The most distressing outcome of the deep global recession of 2008-2009, and subsequent anemic recovery, is that...

WASHINGTON – America and the European Union finally came up with serious economic sanctions against Russia, as a way to...

WASHINGTON – America’s ability to exploit and use abundant domestic energy –shale oil and gas– has to be celebrated....

WASHINGTON – Sadly, there is a hopeless circularity in the reasons produced by both sides for the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict....

WASHINGTON – In a recent editorial, (Stop the rockets, but lift the siege, July 20th, 2014), The Economist provides thoughtful...

WASHINGTON – “We have concluded that Vladimir Putin and the Russians are culpable for this tragedy”. This is how...

WASHINGTON – Predictably, Israel’s offensive against Hamas in the Gaza strip has been loudly condemned by international public opinion....

WASHINGTON – If Obama were an American statesman, then he would get seriously engaged in the foreign crises, from Gaza To...

WASHINGTON– Way back, during the tense years of the Cold War, some analysts, having noted with concern Europe’s policy to be extra...

WASHINGTON – I do believe that Israel’s invasion of Gaza in order to destroy the tunnels that Hamas built...