Can China Provide a New Economic Model? WASHINGTON– Can we say that “US-style free market capitalism”, as a reality, as a model and as an aspiration, is...
Natural Gas Is a “Gift to the US Economy” WASHINGTON – I have already noted in an earlier piece the baffling inability to properly cover the story of...
BRIEF: How TIME Tells you about Education Failures WASHINGTON – TIME magazine editors managed to relegate a major news item on the colossal failures of US public...
A Real Estate Bubble in China? WASHINGTON – Japan had its real estate bubble in 1989. America had its “dot.com”, “new economy” bubble in 2000...
America Needs Education Reform WASHINGTON – Here is the basic proposition: America’s national secondary education system bleeds very badly. We are doing poorly and...
Time to Get Real in Afghanistan WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama just made a surprise visit to the US troops in Afghanistan and thanked them...
The “Debt Commission” Has Gone Home WASHINGTON – I recently expressed unconditional praise for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two gutsy co-chairs of the...
Bowles-Simpson to America: Cut Spending Now WASHINGTON – The American debt crisis is deep and real, requiring urgent measures. What is at stake here is...
After The Elections: Divided America WASHINGTON – Maybe we can call these mid-term elections the revolt of “Fly-Over-Country” against the coastal pro-big-government elites that...
How To Fix America: A Massive R&D Effort WASHINGTON – Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought provoking cover story essay in TIME magazine, (“How to Restore the American...