US – Page 33 – Schirach Report

Sustained US Growth Requires Quality Public Education The US is improving. But we are still struggling. Too many Americans are not participating

WASHINGTON – The American economy is closing 2014 on a high note. US GDP grew 5% in the third quarter....

Saudi Arabia Wants To Kill US Shale Oil The Saudis bet that high cost US shale oil industry will not be able to survive a prolonged period of low prices

WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia’s oil end game is to let prices fall and stay low for as long as...

NYT Report From Cuba Silent About Moribund Economy Cuba is poor because it is socialist. And yet none of this comes out in a long article about local reactions to the news of normalized relations with the USA

WASHINGTON – In a longish report from Cuba, The New York Times tells us about various opinions expressed by...

America Embraces Cuba? After 55 years of hostility, Obama establishes diplomatic relations with the communist regime

WASHINGTON – President Obama’s unexpected announcement about re-establishing formal diplomatic relations with Cuba, while easing some of the travel and...

Too Much Media Coverage For Isolated Terror Attacks Our obsession with political violence inspired by Islam guarantees that we shall have more of it

WASHINGTON – In a perverse way, our hysteric fascination with each and every killing perpetrated in the West by...

The World Believes That America Is Racist International media focus on civil rights protests only, ignore the broad picture. The BBC leads distortion campaign

ADDIS ABEBA, Ethiopia – Traveling abroad allows the opportunity to look at America with the eyes of others. And this...

Low Oil Prices Is The Only Bit Of Good News For Most Western Countries Let's celebrate cheap gasoline. But let's find ways to grow our economies, whatever the price of oil will be

WASHINGTON – Western financial and business publications are now celebrating the collapse of oil prices. This unexpected Christmas gift is...

The US National Debt Just Passed The $ 18 Trillion Mark — And Nobody Cares A large and growing debt does not represent an immediate threat. But it weakens the nation. Look at Italy, or Japan

WASHINGTON – With almost no comment by national leaders, major media, economists, financial analysts or federal budget experts, the...

African-Americans Feel Persecuted By White Police The perception is that Blacks are targeted, while White police officers who deliberately kill Blacks will go free, in all cases. No justice

WASHINGTON – Perception, as we know, is reality. And, sadly, right now the large US African-American community (more than 40...

Keystone Pipeline Killed By Plunging Oil Prices? Canada's oil is very expensive. Hard to to stay competitive when extraction costs are above market prices

WASHINGTON – I suspect that the Keystone pipeline project is dead, or at least is in a coma. And...