Can Europe Make it?
WASHINGTON – “Mistah Kurtz, he dead”. (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness). This famous line, right after a question in the title...
Author: Paolo von Schirach
BP Is not “Beyond Petroleum”
WASHINGTON – A few years ago, the oil multinational British Petroleum, more commonly known as BP, embarked in a...
How Can Western Countries Get Out of Debt? Only By Paring Down Unsustainable Entitlement Programs – A New Social Contract
By Paolo von Schirach May 1, 2010 WASHINGTON – In the case of Greece’s nasty fiscal debacle, everybody’s focus has...
BRIEF: Quoting the PickensPlan on Education
Energy and Education in the US? What is the connection? Quotes below are from www.PickensPlan.com. This is a website...
BRIEF: Quoting Craig Barrett On Education
BRIEF: EDUCATION What kind of education do Americans need today? Craig Barrett, former CEO of Intel Corp., serves as...
India’s Bharti Airtel Conquering Africa
WASHINGTON – What is the connection between India’s telecom giant Bharti Airtel acquisition of the African mobile operations of...
Singapore Wants to Stay Competitive
WASHINGTON – If there is one economy that is generally understood to be a net beneficiary of globalization this...
Health Care v. Energy
WASHINGTON – What’s the correlation between the vast shale gas deposits in Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New...
Greek Profligacy and the Myth of Cost Free Welfare
WASHINGTON – the Greek public sector deficit crisis has attracted inordinate media coverage largely because it broke out all...
US: Waiting for the Green Economy
WASHINGTON – The old US economy will not come back; while the seeds of the much advertised new economy,...