FT: “Corbyn Is A Disastrous Choice” The British Labour party has abandoned reality, taking refuge in peace and justice dreams
WASHINGTON – Here is how The Financial Times sees the election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of...
Category: International
Chinese Communist Party Instructs Media To Stress “Superiority of China’s System” When confronted with bad news, all autocracies tell lies
WASHINGTON – The Financial Times reports that the Chinese Communist Party gave detailed directives to all Chinese media about...
Lessons of 9/11: Stay Vigilant, Improve US Intelligence It is impossible to "win" an aasymmetric conflict in which the other side always has the advantage of surprise
WASHINGTON – The 9/11 attacks brought home the simple but unpleasant truth that America and Americans are easy, vulnerable...
Despite GOP Opposition, Iran Nuclear Agreement Here To Stay Too much international momentum behind pact. Almost impossible to reopen the issue
WASHINGTON – The acrimonious Washington debate about the Iran nuclear deal is mostly noise –and almost entirely for domestic...
Endless Migration To Europe From Africa And The Middle East This is not just about Syrian refugees. This is an economic migration from poor countries
WASHINGTON – The recent headlines and TV images about throngs of desperate Syrian families trying to board trains in...
Italy’s Bad Growth Numbers Described As Good In the "New Normal" leaders and media proclaim that chronic under performance is totally fine
WASHINGTON – When drastically reduced expectations become the “New Normal” lousy economic numbers in Western countries become acceptable, and...
An Academic Argues That We Need Socialist Policies in America Socialism is good, we have never really tried it
WASHINGTON – In the course of a TV program focused on economic freedom, a leftist university professor was interviewed...
Europe’s Refugee Crisis Getting Worse Immigrants coming into Europe do not add to the economy. They need services
WASHINGTON – According to UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, so far in 2015 Europe received about 300,000 refugees who...
US Hit By Global Slow Down Impossible for America to insulate itself from the down turn
WASHINGTON – Will US stocks recover? Or are they headed even lower? The optimists tell us that Wall Street...
America Needs Good Pro-Growth Structural Reforms Let's go back to Simpson-Bowles. We need action on fiscal and tax issues, deregulation and public education
WASHINGTON – After the August 24 sell off, there was no real bounce back. The US stock market regained...