International – Page 53 – Schirach Report

Italy’s Prime Minister Letta Survived, But He Cannot Govern Impossible politics and intractable economic problems make it really hard to chart a path ahead for Italy

By Paolo von Schirach October 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – In Italian politics the first order of business (and second and third) has...

Cheap Energy Makes America More Competitive Europe is losing ground. Many energy intensive industries want to relocate to the USA

By Paolo von Schirach September 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – Does cheap energy make a difference when it comes to...

Policy Makers Claim That Europe Is Finally Stable, Long Emergency Is Over – Not So Unless you believe that 12% unemployment and dismal growth are satisfactory, Europe has a long way to go. Unwillingness to consider any change to the EU membership

By Paolo von Schirach September 27, 2013 WASHINGTON – It is a sign of the times that listless Europe,...

Media Obsession With Terrorism Encourages Attention Seeking People To Engage In Terror Plots By treating political violence just like any other type of violence we would convince would be terrorists that acts of terror change nothing. This might deter at least some of them from plotting

WASHINGTON – The real problem with terrorists is that, whatever their “cause” and declared “goals”, deep down they are mostly attention...

If Solar Power Became Affordable, Developing Countries Would Be Transformed Lack of electricity is the main barrier to development. Building power plants and transmission lines is very expensive. Solar would generate power even in remote villages

WASHINGTON – When it comes to electric power generation and distribution, in developed countries we are used to this...

China’s Challenges: Lower Growth And An Environmental Crisis The old "cheap labor" economic model does not work anymore. Meanwhile the country will have to fix the disasters caused by past break-neck growth. A huge agenda for policy-makers

By Paolo von Schirach September 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – The gravity-defying Chinese economic growth model is not working anymore....

Only 63.2% Of Americans In the Work Force, Lowest Figure Since 1978 – Fed Policies Cannot Change This Trend Due to automation, we have manufacturing growth without adding jobs. Most new opening are in sectors requiring low skills

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2013/09/02/disruptive-technologies-like-3-d-printing-will-kill-millions-of-jobs-can-we-adjust-to-this-new-era/ September 8, 2013 WASHINGTON – Lacking any significant public policy initiative focusing on...

America And The World Are Against It, But Obama Now Must Act On Syria Politically speaking this is almost suicidal; but the President has no choice. He cannot retreat

By Paolo von Schirach September 7, 2013 WASHINGTON – From a purely political vantage point, Obama’s plan to punish...

In China Easy Credit Led To High Growth But Also Many Bad Investments – In The Long Run This Is Unsustainable Professor Michael Pettis argues that China should tighten interest rates so that more expensive credit will go mostly to deserving borrowers

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2013/08/28/underneath-chinas-still-impressive-7-5-growth-there-is-a-mountain-of-debt/ September 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – I pointed out in a recent piece how China’s...

3 D Printing Will Kill Millions of Jobs – Can We Adjust To This New Era? When consumers will easily "make" goods at home, factories will disappear. Can we cope with this unfolding revolution?

WASHINGTON – An excellent TIME magazine story about robots and automation, (The Robot Economy, September 9, 2013), delivered a...