Doctor Who Treated Ebola Patients Got Sick Upon Returning To NYC From Africa Why at risk individuals are not quarantined?
WASHINGTON – Just a few Ebola cases in America exposed huge gaps in the nation’s preparedness to face any...
Author: Paolo von Schirach
Lesson From Ottawa Attack: Too Much Media Coverage For Acts Of Political Violence We should focus on would-be jihadists. But we should not give them so much media coverage
WASHINGTON – What is the lesson to be drawn from the shootings in the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa? Very simple....
No More News From Ukraine – Putin Won, Poroshenko Lost The tacit understanding is that Eastern Ukraine is lost. Moscow-funded rebels will not be dislodged
WASHINGTON – We hear nothing about Ukraine these days. And for a very simple reason. The war is over....
Total’s Chief Accidently Killed By His Russian Friends Christophe de Margerie was an outspoken proponent of closer energy ties with Russia
WASHINGTON – It is really odd that oil man Christophe de Margerie, Total’s CEO and Putin’s friend, was killed in...
China’s New Slow Economy Housing crisis, lower electricity consumption, and the end of the commodities import boom indicate a new, uncharted phase
WASHINGTON – What’s really happening to the Chinese economy? The answer is that we do not know for sure. But...
State Capitalism Does not Work From the Soviet Union to post-Soviet Russia, from Social Democratic Europe to mixed economy China, we see the inherent flaws of systems in which politicians allocate scarce capital
WASHINGTON – Capitalism is flawed, we know this. The 2008 epic, almost terminal, Wall Street financial meltdown demonstrated that in...
The Ebola Response Reveals Incompetence Too many mistakes in dealing with just one case. Contrary to what Americans have been told, we are not prepared
WASHINGTON – Beyond the hysteria, false alarms and exaggerations surrounding just three Ebola cases in the US, the disturbing fact...
The Greek Economy Never Recovered – Now It is Once Again In Crisis All the aid packages ($ 306 billion) fixed nothing. Sky high debt, unemployment at 26% and a collapsed stock market
WASHINGTON – We were told months ago that Greece, the ultra-sick member of the Eurozone, was essentially out of...
Lockheed Claims Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough If this is true, we are on the verge of an energy revolution
WASHINGTON – I have observed in previous pieces that our long season of economic stagnation here in America (and...
Is Wall Street Going To Crash? Are sharply lower stock prices just a "healthy correction"? Or is this the beginning of a serious downturn?
WASHINGTON – If you believe that US stocks are priced fairly, then the current sharp dip experienced by Wall...