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...
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 “Debt Commission” Has Gone Home WASHINGTON – I recently expressed unconditional praise for Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the two gutsy co-chairs of the...
Bowles-Simpson to America: Cut Spending Now WASHINGTON – The American debt crisis is deep and real, requiring urgent measures. What is at stake here is...
How To Fix America: A Massive R&D Effort WASHINGTON – Fareed Zakaria wrote a thought provoking cover story essay in TIME magazine, (“How to Restore the American...
Needed: A US National Consensus on Debt Reduction WASHINGTON – America is facing death by garrote-like, slow fiscal strangulation. Overtime, Washington piled up debt levels that beat...
How to get America back into Innovation WASHINGTON – A recent Schumpeter column in The Economist magazine (“The Innovation Machine”, August 28 – September 3, 2010),...
Fast Trains for America? WASHINGTON – The US is terribly late in grasping the advantages of high speed rail as a more efficient...