After Bowles-Simpson, House Budget Chair Paul Ryan Comes Forward With a Serious Fiscal Reform Plan
by Paolo von Schirach April 4, 2011 WASHINGTON – While the silly posturing on budget cuts to...
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Obama Speech, London Conference – Still No Clear Strategy for Libya
by Paolo von Schirach March 29, 2011 WASHINGTON– On March 28, president Barack Obama used the august...
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...
Old Lobbies Prevent New Energy Policies
WASHINGTON – A while ago, a former high ranking Republican technocrat, senior staff member in many administrations, almost casually indicated...
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...
America Has Got Natural Gas!
WASHINGTON – A Recent, (November 14, 2010), segment of the popular CBS TV program 60 Minutes was devoted to...
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...