Not a Revolution; But Egypt Will Get its Reforms – Is Anybody Watching? “Those who cling to the status quo may be able to hold back the...
America: Time for Clarity on Egypt WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday tried his best to say as little as...
The Real America Is Not Doing Well WASHINGTON – How is the “State of the Union”? Well, the Union President Obama described on January...
Old Lobbies Prevent New Energy Policies WASHINGTON – A while ago, a former high ranking Republican technocrat, senior staff member in many administrations, almost casually indicated...
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...
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...