Time to Get Real in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama just made a surprise visit to the US troops in Afghanistan and thanked them...
Category: Economy
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...
Needed: A US National Consensus on Debt Reduction
WASHINGTON – America is facing death by garrote-like, slow fiscal strangulation. Overtime, Washington piled up debt levels that beat...
After the Elections: A More Divided America?
WASHINGTON – Most opinion polls indicate losses for the Democrats, the majority party now holding both the White House...
India’s Rise
WASHINGTON – The “Big Story” of the decade, in fact of the century, is the rise of Asia, a...
Fast Trains for America?
WASHINGTON – The US is terribly late in grasping the advantages of high speed rail as a more efficient...
Indiana: Blueprint for Lean, Smart Government
WASHINGTON – President Obama, perhaps overwhelmed by the number and magnitude of the issues already piled up –the banks, GM,...