Cost Competitive Solar Power? Coming Soon, But Not Here Yet An FT story talks about a breakthrough that has not quite happened By Paolo von Schirach August 9, 2013 WASHINGTON – The FT published a big spread on solar power, (A rising...
AARP Magazine Placed A Good Article On Bill Clinton’s Healthy Diet On Page 38 – Why Not The Cover Story? AARP does little to promote healthy habits among its members who are the largest consumers of medical services. Why is that? By Paolo von Schirach August 8, 2013 WASHINGTON – The 38 million strong AARP (formerly the American Association of...
The State Is Not A Competent Entrepreneur – Huge Distinction Between Awarding Grants And Running Companies A recent review of the book "The Entrepreneurial State" may engender confusion between the two, quite separate, activities By Paolo von Schirach August 5, 2013 WASHINGTON – “The state is the real engine of innovation“. Under this...
Americans Have Discovered Hummus – Growing Sales For The Sabra Brand Virginia farmers may soon grow chickpeas instead of tobacco. A win-win-win proposition for consumers, for industry and for growers By Paolo von Schirach August 4, 2013 WASHINGTON – For once there seems to be a positive connection between healthier...
Mediocre July Jobs Report Points To Lower Standards Of Living In The US Most of the new 162,000 jobs are low paying positions in retail. Too many part time jobs. The end of American upward mobility? By Paolo von Schirach August 3, 2013 WASHINGTON – The latest US jobs figures are alarming. Sure, we added...
Global Warming Is Real – Still, Do Not Force The Adoption Of Imperfect Renewable Energy, Put More Money into R&D Bjorn Lomborg argues that green energy will replace carbon based sources only when it will be economically viable WASHINGTON – If we knew for sure that man-made global warming were accelerating at a dramatic pace, threatening an imminent...
Detroit’s Bankruptcy Is About Unaffordable Pension Obligations The city tried to raise extra revenue with higher taxes, this way encouraging more tax payers to leave. The combination of pension costs and bonds obligations proved to be unsustainable. Detroit is not "too big to fail" By Paolo von Schirach July 22, 2013 WASHINGTON – The convenient narrative about the Detroit bankruptcy is that the...
President Obama Picked The Zimmerman Case To Talk About Racial Bias In America. A Bad Idea The trail did not uncover any racial motive. The killing of young Trayvon Martin is a tragedy. But it was not a racially motivated killing By Paolo von Schirach July 20, 2013 WASHINGTON – President Obama felt the need to inject his own presidential and...
America Is Beginning to Use Domestic, Cheap Natural Gas As Transportation Fuel Idea pushed by the Pickens Plan. Shift will amount to cutting oil imports, while using a cheaper and cleaner domestic fuel By Paolo von Schirach July 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – The only real bright spot in the otherwise uninspiring scenario of the...
Bernanke Says “Highly Accomodative Policies” Still Needed, And Markets Shoot Up It is bad when Central Bankers, rather than economic fundamentals, move markets. We end up with fake valuations By Paolo von Schirach July 11, 2013 WASHINGTON – No, America, the Fed is not going to remove the...