Americans Do Not Know About The Welfare State Crisis?
“People in Washington assume that Americans understand how big the problem [of solvency for the US welfare...
Category: Economy
Libya Reminds Us of Unresolved Oil Vulnerabilities
WASHINGTON– First Tunisia, then Egypt and Yemen and Bahrain. And now, back to North Africa, we have...
Obama’s Budget Falls Short, Senators Have Plan?
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama just went to Silicon Valley and Oregon to have another pep talk with...
Egypt’s Generals Leading The Country to Democracy?
By Paolo von Schirach February 11, 2011 WASHINGTON – Lat week the Egyptian protesters finally got the...
The Real America Is Not Doing Well
WASHINGTON – How is the “State of the Union”? Well, the Union President Obama described on January...
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...