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...
Category: International
The US Senate Ratified START
WASHINGTON – And so president Obama managed to have the US Senate ratify by a reasonable margin the new...
Natural Gas Is a “Gift to the US Economy”
WASHINGTON – I have already noted in an earlier piece the baffling inability to properly cover the story of...
The War in Afghanistan Goes On
WASHINGTON – The much waited for progress report on the US war in Afghanistan came and went without sparking any...
BRIEF: How TIME Tells you about Education Failures
WASHINGTON – TIME magazine editors managed to relegate a major news item on the colossal failures of US public...
A Real Estate Bubble in China?
WASHINGTON – Japan had its real estate bubble in 1989. America had its “dot.com”, “new economy” bubble in 2000...
America Needs Education Reform
WASHINGTON – Here is the basic proposition: America’s national secondary education system bleeds very badly. We are doing poorly and...
The “Debt Commission” Has Gone Home
WASHINGTON – I recently expressed unconditional praise for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two gutsy co-chairs of the...
Bowles-Simpson to America: Cut Spending Now
WASHINGTON – The American debt crisis is deep and real, requiring urgent measures. What is at stake here is...
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...