Economy – Page 49 – Schirach Report

What Will Be the Political Consequences Of A Slowing Chinese Economy? Slower growth means dashed expectations. Will the Chinese people demand changes?

By Paolo von Schirach July 4, 2013 WASHINGTON – Is China in trouble? Hard to tell; but it looks...

Egypt: The End Of The Muslim Brotherhood Regime Does Not Mean The Country Will Get A Functioning Democracy Religious principles are no good guidance for economic management. But new secular rulers will also have an immense challenge. The Egyptian economy is semi-destroyed, while law and order have vanished

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2012/12/26/morsi-and-the-islamic-fundamentalists-will-not-last-in-egypt-still-enormous-challenges-for-future-secular-rulers-poverty-and-under-development-in-a-country-of-80-million/ July 2, 2013 WASHINGTON – A few months ago I did argue...

“Power Africa”: US Aid To Increase Electricity Production Finally Obama discovered that Africa needs electricity in order to have development. A long term commitment?

By Paolo von Schirach June 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – Back in 1998, while working on an export promotion project in...

Obama’s Speeches Not In Sync With America’s Deep Concerns Nuclear disarmament, gloabal warming are imporatnt issues but not on top of any list. Obama's grandiose pronouncements fall flat. President out of touch?

By Paolo von Schirach June 26, 2013 WASHINGTON – I notice a huge disconnect between the big concerns of the...

Bank For International Settlements Annual Report Tells Central Bankers To Stop Trying To Fix Economic Policies The US Fed and the others should stick with monetary affairs. It is up to governments to deal with the macroeconomic picture. Sound advice but it will be ignored

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2013/06/20/bernanke-hinted-at-a-slow-phasing-out-of-qe3-and-markets-tanked-proving-that-we-have-a-fed-inspired-bull-market/ June 24, 2013 WASHINGTON – The Basel based Bank for International Settlements,...

Abenomics Is A Good Try, But Aggressive Economic Policies May Not Be Enough To Revive Japan Why is this advanced society declining? Why Japan's demographic collapse? There is no objective explanation

By Paolo von Schirach June 23, 2013 WASHINGTON – Today’s Japan may be a sad but realistic illustration of...

A Tax Police Report Describes Widespread Tax Cheating Schemes in Italy Sadly millions of Italians use their talent to avoid taxes instead of concentrating on productive activities

By Paolo von Schirach June 22, 2013 WASHINGTON- Just like the rest of Southern Europe Italy is limping along,...

Bernanke Hinted At A Slow Phasing Out Of QE3 And Markets Tanked, Proving That We Have A Fed Inspired Bull Market The Fed should stick to its main mandate to defend the currency. The attempt to force economic expansion creates too many distortions

By Paolo von Schirach June 20, 2013 WASHINGTON – “What the Fed giveth, the Fed taketh away“. This pretty...

Obama Doing Poorly At Home And Abroad – But GOP Incapable To Seize This Opening In order to become the majority party the GOP needs to become a credible force for opportunity, education and inclusiveness

By Paolo von Schirach June 20, 2013 WASHINGTON – This should be a good time for the Republicans to...

Outmoded Thinking And Wasteful Tools Survive, Despite New Knowledge About Cost Effective Solutions Now Available To All We could have affordable High quality college education and user friendly public transportation systems; but we prefer the ineffective, wasteful old ways

By Paolo von Schirach June 19, 2013 WASHINGTON – Sadly our societies do not progress in a linear fashion. The cliche of...