Italian Dreams Prime Minister Renzi indicated that, with a 0.7% growth, Italy is once again a locomotive WASHINGTON – Hope springs eternal. Yes, but when Matteo Renzi, the Prime Minister of Italy, a country in slow...
We Have To Learn How To Live With The Terror Threat No one has a magic remedy. Catching the bad guys is a job for the police and intelligence services WASHINGTON – Here we go, more home-grown terrorism in America, most likely Islam-inspired terrorism. This time it happened in...
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...
“And The Fair Land”: Freedom Is America’s True Blessing Conflict and bravery, self-doubt and resourcefulness. But in the end confidence prevailed, and a great country was built WASHINGTON – Thanksgiving 2015 – The Wall Street Journal has been publishing the same “Thanksgiving” Editorial since 1961. It...
Trump Is Still Ahead, But His Core Constituency Is Narrow Does Trump has the skill to build a coalition that will go well beyond his White, lower middle class loyal base? WASHINGTON – Yes, despite the crazy things he says about immigrants, China, Mexico, and Muslims, and despite the grandiose...
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...
Republican Voters Want Change, Forget About Experience Trump and Carson are leading in the polls. And yet both of them are unprepared to be President WASHINGTON – Yes, Donald Trump is still the number one preference among likely Republican primaries voters. And the rich...
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...