Happy Fourth America WASHINGTON – I run into an old acquaintance in the elevator. A few pleasantries are exchanged. And his farewell...
Firing McChrystal Not Enough WASHINGTON – The scandal caused by the openly dismissive and offensive language used by General Stanley McChrystal, US and...
BP and the Mismanagement of Complex Systems Systemic failures indicate inability to understand the true nature of problems, in industry as well as in government WASHINGTON – The story of the BP Gulf platform explosion and never-ending spill has been presented to the public as...
Cooking Up Jobs Numbers at The White House WASHINGTON – On June 4 President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden went just outside of Washington, in...
Can Europe Make it? WASHINGTON – “Mistah Kurtz, he dead”. (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness). This famous line, right after a question in the title...
How Can Western Countries Get Out of Debt? Only By Paring Down Unsustainable Entitlement Programs – A New Social Contract By Paolo von Schirach May 1, 2010 WASHINGTON – In the case of Greece’s nasty fiscal debacle, everybody’s focus has...
India’s Bharti Airtel Conquering Africa WASHINGTON – What is the connection between India’s telecom giant Bharti Airtel acquisition of the African mobile operations of...
Singapore Wants to Stay Competitive WASHINGTON – If there is one economy that is generally understood to be a net beneficiary of globalization this...
Health Care v. Energy WASHINGTON – What’s the correlation between the vast shale gas deposits in Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New...
Greek Profligacy and the Myth of Cost Free Welfare WASHINGTON – the Greek public sector deficit crisis has attracted inordinate media coverage largely because it broke out all...