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...
US Economy Slowing Down Stock prices still very high while the US economy is slowing amidts a deteriorating global economy WASHINGTON – The US stock market, while not doing great, is still up. And yet the US economic outlook...
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...
Will The Fed Raise Interest Rates? May Be Not New headwinds suggest no action in December WASHINGTON – Until a couple of days ago, most economists bet that the US Federal Reserve would finally begin to...
All Is Well In China? According to a major consultancy, nothing out of the ordinary in the Chinese economy WASHINGTON – A detailed report prepared by a major Western international economic consultancy pointed out that the doomsday predictions...
Who Believes China’s Official Economic Statistics? The Chinese clearly publish false data. What we do not know is how big their lies really are WASHINGTON – We all know that China’s economy is slowing down. The Chinese government itself announced this. What we...
WSJ: Chinese Economy Not Fixed Overproduction, too much debt and bad loans WASHINGTON – “Chinese factories continue to pump out too much steel, glass, cement and other items even as they...
The Disastrous Consequences of China’s One Child Policy It may be too late to fix the damage WASHINGTON – “ one child mandate is the single greatest social-policy error in human history.” — Nicholas Eberstadt, political...
US Navy Challenges Beijing In The South China Sea The US Navy has been sent close to islands illegally claimed by China in order to assert freedom of navigation. How will China react? WASHINGTONÂ – The Obama administration does not have a stellar record either on national security issues or on upholding basic...
Thanks To The Central Banks, The Equity Bubble Is Getting Bigger Governments are not engaging in serious economic policy reforms. Central bankers keep pumping in more liquidity. What will happen next? WASHINGTON – Imagine this. There are lots of chronically sick patients in the hospital. Many of them are deteriorating...