Will NAFTA Be Fixed? Will negotiations produce an improved free trade area in North America?
WASHINGTON – It is not a bad idea to look at ways to improve NAFTA, the Free Trade Agreement...
Tag: Energy
Major Economic Reforms In Saudi Arabia? Prince Mohammed would like to see quick modernization. It will not happen
WASHINGTON – What is going in Saudi Arabia? Probably too much. We have now an odd stew of engineered...
Coal Consumption On the Rise in Asia Developing countries pick the cheapest fuel to produce needed electricity
WASHINGTON – The Paris climate talks may end up with new carbon reduction commitments made mostly by Europe and...
A Very Weak American Economy While the US economy remains very fragile, the presidential campaign is about "anchor babies"
WASHINGTON – The slow but steady decline of the US economy should be the main theme of this unfolding...
Vertical Urban Farming Is About To Happen From Singapore to Japan, the USA and Europe entrepreneurs are growing crops in cities
WASHINGTON – Over the years farming has become much more efficient. It has been heavily mechanized. Therefore it is far less labor...
Bill Gates: Fund High Risk Energy Ventures We need a breakthrough, real game changers that will perform better than carbon based systems
WASHINGTON – Here is what Bill Gates, (IT technology visionary, Microsoft founder, net worth about $ 80 billion), said talking...
Obama’s “Power Africa” Initiative Never Took Off Major investments in power generation did not happen. Too much bureaucracy
WASHINGTON – Anybody who knows sub-Saharan Africa will tell you that the main obstacle to additional economic growth is...
Oil Is King, For Now Renewable energy is not yet economically viable. But its day will come
WASHINGTON – In an interview with FORTUNE magazine, Chevron CEO John Watson argued that, whatever the oil prices wild...
Impossible to Bring Back To the US Old Industries –Focus On New Technologies The US outsourced the entire supply chain on which manufacturers rely. Imnpossible to bring it back to America
WASHINGTON – An interesting story in the WSJ focused on how some US companies are looking at the prospect...
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...