China’s Debt Is Getting A Bad Grade – No Crisis, But Slow Fiscal Erosion Caused By Too Much Local Governments’ Borrowing
Paolo von Schirach April 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – Is China in trouble? The current 7.7% growth rate, while very...
Category: Public Policy
New Background Checks Legislation Aimed At Reducing Gun Violence in America Is Almost Meaningless – There Are Just Too Many Guns Already In Circulation, While Criminals Know How To Get Weapons Illegally
By Paolo von Schirach April 15, 2013 WASHINGTON – The mass killing at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown...
Subsidies To The Wind Power Sector Made It Less Efficient – Misguided Economic Policies Introduce Distortions That Undermine The Effective Use Of Scarce Resources – This Is The Triumph Of Politics Over Economics
By Paolo von Schirach April 6, 2013 WASHINGTON – A former wind power industry executive noted in a recent...
From Beijing To Washington People Cry Out For Good Governance – Professional Politicians In Developing And Developed Countries Are Often Behind The Curve
By Paolo von Schirach March 10, 2013 TRAVELING BETWEEN EMERGING MARKETS – In the developing world, a few decades...
Obama Presented His State-Led Policy Agenda – Rubio Proposed The GOP Alternative – Good Message, But An Ill At Ease Messenger Who Seemed At Times Overwhelmed
By Paolo von Schirach February 13, 2013 WASHINGTON – Only hubris can explain the obvious disconnect between...
America Stagnates – Global Competition And Lack Of Pro-Growth Tax Policies Stifle The Economy – Urgent Need Of Policy Changes; Will The President Lead?
By Paolo von Schirach February 7, 2013 WASHINGTON – The American economy has yet to recover from...
Senior Italian Official Decries The Impact On Growth Of Too Many Taxes And Too Much Corruption
By Paolo von Schirach February 6, 2013 WASHINGTON – Economist Tyler Cowen calls it “The Great Stagnation”. 2010 Nobel...
Electric Cars Do Not Sell – Just Like Renewable Energy, A Good Idea Whose Time Has Yet To Come – Innovation Will Replace Carbon Based Energy, But Not Today
By Paolo von Schirach February 4, 2013 WASHINGTON – The New Green Economy that would have created...
Immigration Reform May Succeed – The Republicans Want Latino Votes – However, Let’s Remember That Immigration Is About Becoming Citizens, Not Just Legal Workers – America Is About Shared Values, Not About Jobs
By Paolo von Schirach January 29, 2013 WASHINGTON – In perennially divided and dysfunctional Washington it seems...
America’s Problem: Half The Country No Longer Believes In The Virtues Of Free Market Capitalism More entitlements seem more appealing. However, low growth and high spending will inevitably lead to national decline; just like in Europe
WASHINGTON – America’s biggest problem –as the recent presidential elections have demonstrated– is that a bit more than half...