Fight Global Warming With Disruptive Innovation – Not Mandates
WASHINGTON – The Paris event on climate change will probably yield nothing really concrete. The fact is that, despite...
Category: Economy
US Economy Slowing Down Stock prices still very high while the US economy is slowing amidts a deteriorating global economy
WASHINGTON – The US stock market, while not doing great, is still up. And yet the US economic outlook...
You Cannot Kick Start Innovation GE just announced that it will hold seminars in the UAE aimed at fostering a culture of innovation. It will not work
WASHINGTON – The Emirates News Agency a year ago announced a partnership between the UAE Ministry of Economy and General...
Argentina Chose Mauricio Macri, A Pro-Business Leader The new President faces huge challenges. Reforms will be difficult
WASHINGTON – After 12 years of semi-deranged left wing populism managed by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the political heir...
Republican Voters Want Change, Forget About Experience Trump and Carson are leading in the polls. And yet both of them are unprepared to be President
WASHINGTON – Yes, Donald Trump is still the number one preference among likely Republican primaries voters. And the rich...
Japanese Women Still Excluded From Management Positions A state funded scheme that would pay small firms that promote women had just one application
WASHINGTON – One of the key promises of “Abenomics”, the far-reaching economic reforms package put forth by Prime Minister...
Africa’s Debt Is Back – Bigger Than Ever Commodity prices collapsed, currencies lost value. Hard to make interest payments
WASHINGTON – There was a time, about ten years ago, in which world-famous rock stars like Bono of U2...
Will The Fed Raise Interest Rates? May Be Not New headwinds suggest no action in December
WASHINGTON – Until a couple of days ago, most economists bet that the US Federal Reserve would finally begin to...
All Is Well In China? According to a major consultancy, nothing out of the ordinary in the Chinese economy
WASHINGTON – A detailed report prepared by a major Western international economic consultancy pointed out that the doomsday predictions...
Solar Energy Coming to Africa The revolution is underway
WASHINGTON – A few months ago, a photograph of a little Asian child sitting next to a city lamp...