Economy – Page 47 – Schirach Report

A Radical Republican Party Will Never Govern America Tea Party and Libertarians want an ideological fight against GOP moderates. Their minority positions have no wide popular appeal

By Paolo von Schirach October 4, 2013 WASHINGTON – Ted Cruz for president? Good luck. Rand Paul for President? Not...

Italy’s Prime Minister Letta Survived, But He Cannot Govern Impossible politics and intractable economic problems make it really hard to chart a path ahead for Italy

By Paolo von Schirach October 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – In Italian politics the first order of business (and second and third) has...

Cheap Energy Makes America More Competitive Europe is losing ground. Many energy intensive industries want to relocate to the USA

By Paolo von Schirach September 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – Does cheap energy make a difference when it comes to...

Energy Conservation Helps Us Fight Global Warming As we develop more cost-effetive renewable energy technologies, consuming less electricity will help reduce emissions from carbon

By Paolo von Schirach September 29, 2013 WASHINGTON – A recent (and rare) TIME magazine piece on energy, (Power Surge,...

Policy Makers Claim That Europe Is Finally Stable, Long Emergency Is Over – Not So Unless you believe that 12% unemployment and dismal growth are satisfactory, Europe has a long way to go. Unwillingness to consider any change to the EU membership

By Paolo von Schirach September 27, 2013 WASHINGTON – It is a sign of the times that listless Europe,...

The Near Collapse Of A Bridge In Wisconsin Is a Reminder Of The Horrible State Of America’s Basic Infrastructure The American Society of Civil Engineers indicates that we should spend at least $ 3.6 trillion between now and 2020 to fix the problem

By Paolo von Schirach September 26, 2013 WASHINGTON – A major bridge in Green Bay, Wisconsin has been closed to traffic...

No Way For America To Compete Effectively Unless It Improves Its Dismal Public Education System Most children in Philadelphia cannot read, yet their teachers get good marks. How is this possible?

By Paolo von Schirach September 25, 2013 WASHINGTON – There is really no dispute about the fact that in this hyper...

If Solar Power Became Affordable, Developing Countries Would Be Transformed Lack of electricity is the main barrier to development. Building power plants and transmission lines is very expensive. Solar would generate power even in remote villages

WASHINGTON – When it comes to electric power generation and distribution, in developed countries we are used to this...

Martin Feldstein Has An Excellent Recipe For Stimulating US Growth While Fixing The Debt Infrastructure spending, corporate tax reform, and entitlement reform are indeed necessary and doable. The problem is that our divided political system does not allow any of this to happen

By Paolo von Schirach September 18, 2013 WASHINGTON – In a very clear and cogent essay published by the...

China’s Challenges: Lower Growth And An Environmental Crisis The old "cheap labor" economic model does not work anymore. Meanwhile the country will have to fix the disasters caused by past break-neck growth. A huge agenda for policy-makers

By Paolo von Schirach September 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – The gravity-defying Chinese economic growth model is not working anymore....

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