Fight Global Warming With Disruptive Innovation – Not Mandates WASHINGTON – The Paris event on climate change will probably yield nothing really concrete. The fact is that, despite...
US Economy Slowing Down Stock prices still very high while the US economy is slowing amidts a deteriorating global economy WASHINGTON – The US stock market, while not doing great, is still up. And yet the US economic outlook...
You Cannot Kick Start Innovation GE just announced that it will hold seminars in the UAE aimed at fostering a culture of innovation. It will not work WASHINGTON – The Emirates News Agency a year ago announced a partnership between the UAE Ministry of Economy and General...
Argentina Chose Mauricio Macri, A Pro-Business Leader The new President faces huge challenges. Reforms will be difficult WASHINGTON – After 12 years of semi-deranged left wing populism managed by Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the political heir...
The Terror Threat Will Not End It is too easy to create a terror group. And terror operations are really cheap WASHINGTON – Terror attacks hatched by crazy militants underscore the deep vulnerabilities of modern, open societies. They trigger an avalanche...
Japanese Women Still Excluded From Management Positions A state funded scheme that would pay small firms that promote women had just one application WASHINGTON – One of the key promises of “Abenomics”, the far-reaching economic reforms package put forth by Prime Minister...
Africa’s Debt Is Back – Bigger Than Ever Commodity prices collapsed, currencies lost value. Hard to make interest payments WASHINGTON – There was a time, about ten years ago, in which world-famous rock stars like Bono of U2...
The West Is Caught In Middle East Chaos Terrorism is just one manifestation of religious wars that will have no quick end WASHINGTON – The Paris terror attacks lead to Syria, to the Arab Spring, to the Sunni-Shia conflicts, to al...
After The Paris Terror Attack: Focus On The Caliphate Eliminating this stronghold of jihadi power in Syria and Iraq would hurt morale and recruiting power WASHINGTON – Regarding the large-scale terror attack that just took place in Paris, the worst thing that we can...
EU Money To Stop African Migrants? The latest European plan is a sign of despair or stupidity WASHINGTON – The EU-Africa Summit just held in Malta was supposed to lead to some kind of understanding between...