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Uncertainty about Samsung earnings and profitability with shrinking margins in smartphones and televisions (2)
06/18/2013
Linked Articles
Investors Stay Sour on Samsung, Slicing $8 Billion From Market Capitalization
Wall Street Journal 01/02/2014
Huawei Set to Launch New SmartphoneWall Street Journal 06/18/2013
Getting economic policy right- A second look at Japan, the European Union and the U.S. in 2014-2015
06/09/2013
In taking a second look, economists Stiglitz and Krugman ask if much derided Japan has avoided the worst effects of unemployment that have affected Spain, Italy, Greece, and France in the eurozone, and for the the long term unemployed in the U.S. And in doing so also avoided the widening income and wealth gaps opened up in the other industrialized countries.
Linked Articles
New York Times 10/30/2014
Japan Is a Model Not a Cautionary TaleNew York Times 06/09/2013
Governor Jerry Brown of California and former U.S. Fed chairman Volcker- reviving the great tradition of public service in the U.S.
05/29/2013
The public interest is critical for a nation to advance and create improvement. A vigorous tradition of public service is essential for the public interest to be preserved. It also commands the highest respect with its common sense approach setting aside ideologies, with its integrity, character and humility.
Linked Articles
Jerry Brown is spending more on ballot measures than on his own campaign - The Washington Post
Washington Post 10/24/2014
Volcker Plans to Restore Faith in GovernmentNew York Times 05/29/2013
The common challenges facing Pakistan's elected democratic government and its military leaders in modernizing the economy
05/18/2013
A new dynamic is taking hold in South Asia even as Indian officials remain skeptical. China's prime minister Li Keqiang visits India with a trade delegaton and sees trade reaching $100 billion a year between the two countries and growing rapidly. Pakistan's military and civilian leaders also see the urgency for modernizing the economy and building infrastructure as Pakistan begins to catchup with its neighbors in Asia.
Linked Articles
Pakistan army chief meets incoming prime minister in ‘good omen’ - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/20/2013
In a Journey on a Crumbling Railway, a Picture of a Nationâs TroublesNew York Times 05/18/2013
Tensions between China, Japan and S. Korea- DPJ Hatoyama's vision of East Asian Community in 2010 and LDP's Abe in 2014 (1)
05/10/2013
Linked Articles
A Dangerous Rift Between China and Japan
Wall Street Journal 05/10/2013
Tensions in Asia Stoke Rising Nationalism in JapanWall Street Journal 02/27/2014
Job interviewing at Amazon- emphasis on cultural fit and use of "skilled evaluators"
05/01/2013
Linked Articles
What It's Like to Interview at Amazon
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New HiresWall Street Journal 01/08/2014
Policy contrast between socialist governments in Venezuela and Bolivia
04/12/2013
Bolivia's socialist government of Evo Morales has taken a different approach by reducing subsidies and increasing gasoline prices to about $2.00 a gallon in 2013. Salaries of governent workers was also increased by 20% in 2013, and additional 10% added to price of locally produced grain and corn, in policy actions. Morales cited as a reason the $150 million in smuggling to neighboring countries of the $660 million in gasoline imports, wasting a significant part of the $380 million annual state gasoline subsidy which could be used for infrastructure. In Venezuela both opposing candidates for president Maduro and Capriles supported the state subsidy for gasoline that is exceptional among developing countries, and at a time when Venezuela is short of foreign currency for other imports.
Linked Articles
Almost-Free Gas Comes at a High Cost
Wall Street Journal 04/12/2013
Turnabout in Bolivia as Economy Rises From InstabilityNew York Times 02/16/2014
The steadily growing automobile market in China in 2014-2015 (6)- CCTV 315 and the importance of consumer issues for VW, GM, Toyota
03/15/2013
Linked Articles
VW's China Unit to Recall Cars After TV Broadcast
Wall Street Journal 03/17/2013
VW to Bolster Its Output in ChinaWall Street Journal 03/15/2013
Ari Shavit of Haaretz and Ami Ayalon of Israel Security Agency see a new way forward for peace in the Middle East and reduction of tensions
03/12/2013
The opportunities presented by a rapidly changing Middle East are being observed by perceptive Israeli observers after decades of conflict. By defusing tensions and involving public opinion in the Middle East it provides a more lasting agreement han can be reached with individual leaders in the Middle East. It also returns to the focus to widely shared benefits of economic development of the people in the region and improvements in education, infrastructure and economic opportunity. Old ideas of secuirty are supplemented by new ideas of security.
Linked Articles
New York Times 01/01/2014
The Old Peace Is Dead, but a New Peace Is PossibleNew York Times 03/12/2013
Mark Hulbert of Financial Digest and the importance of stocks with financial quality after the emerging markets crisis of 2014
03/01/2013
Linked Articles
Ten Stocks to Own During a Market Correction
Wall Street Journal 02/08/2014
Stocks for Thick and ThinWall Street Journal 03/01/2013
Funding infrastructure needs in Asia and the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
02/14/2013
Led by China, and with founding members India, S. Korea, Britain, Australia, France, Germany and Italy, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is intended to provide much needed financing for infrastructure in Asia. Huge bottlenecks for development exist in Asia's developing countries, including India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Philippines, which can only be tackled through innovative methods of financing. China which has moved ahead in infrastructure development is providing the leadership for this bank. Experts say Europe is right to join, and the U.S. should have supported the idea at the early stage.
Linked Articles
Hostility From U.S. as China Lures Allies to New Bank
New York Times 03/19/2015
Hot Topic in Moscow Talks: How to Fund InfrastructureWall Street Journal 02/14/2013
The slow process of reform for credit ratings agencies involved in the 2008 global financial crisis six years later in 2014
02/05/2013
Linked Articles
S. & P. E-Mails on Mortgage Crisis Show Alarm and Gallows Humor
New York Times 02/05/2013
The Stone Unturned: Credit RatingsNew York Times 03/22/2014
Greece and living up to euro currency responsibilities- efforts under Papadopoulos 2002, Giannitsis 2001, Manos 1998 and Tsipras's commitment in 2015 15
01/28/2013
Can Greece live up to its euro currency responsibilities, is the question raised inside the eurozone, as Greece renews its commitment to reforms to build a modern economy. A look back at politicians who emphasized euro currency responsibilities and the candid remarks by Tsipras in an intervew with Bret Stephens of the WSJ.
Linked Articles
The Politicians Who Warned Greece—but Were Ignored
Wall Street Journal 07/11/2015
Stephens: The Conscience of a RadicalWall Street Journal 01/28/2013
Samsung and the increasing competition in the lower priced smartphone segment from Huawei, HTC, ZTE and Lenovo in 2013-2014
06/17/2013
Linked Articles
Huawei Set to Launch New Smartphone
Wall Street Journal 06/18/2013
Samsung's Dream Is to Be No Android SheepWall Street Journal 06/17/2013
The Jinping-Keqiang leadership in China and the need to help consumers by reducing pharmaceutical and healthcare costs (2)
05/31/2013
The particular need to help the elderly in an aging population for China. The elderly suffer most from the need to set aside a large portion of savings for healthcare costs (Orlik).
Linked Articles
Politics Is a Bitter Pill for Glaxo
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2013
Aging Chinese Face a Bleak PictureWall Street Journal 05/31/2013
The advice of General Keane in May 2013, decisions for Syria and Iraq by president Obama ignoring this advice, and the situation in September 2014
05/22/2013
Gen. Keane's advice was to destroy the 50 airstrips used by the Assad regime and its air defense system with cruise missiles and American airpower, the alternative would be to establish a no fly zone such as the one used in Libya. Direct use of American airpower early in the conflict would make it possible to keep American involvement constructive, and effective.
Linked Articles
Jack Keane and Danielle Pletka: How to Stop Assad's Slaughter
Wall Street Journal 05/22/2013
A President Whose Assurances Have Come Back to Haunt HimNew York Times 09/08/2014
Pakistan Railways and Iraqi Railways- a picture of the Middle East and South Asia in 2014
05/18/2013
Declan Walsh and Tim rango provide aunique insight into the lives of common people in two regions of Asia and the Middle East. A century after the European powers invested in railway lines connecting all parts of the Middle East from Turkey to Iraq and Syria, and connecting all parts of South Asia from the Afghan border to Ceylon, two reporters of the NYT visit the railways in both regions showing the prevailing state of affairs. In Iraq decades of wars and conflict have reduced the railways to a crumbling condition. In South Asia mismanagement, cronyism, corruption has led to disinvestment in Pakistan Railways and inflicted similiar damage to the rail network. Through rail one can see into the life of common people in these regions. What one sees shows that five decades after the colonial powers left this region, the educated elites, the political parties, the military, the religious leaders, have all failed the common people of their homeland.
Linked Articles
A Train Ride Through Time: From Iraq’s Checkered Past Into an Uncertain Future
New York Times 10/18/2014
In a Journey on a Crumbling Railway, a Picture of a Nationâs TroublesNew York Times 05/18/2013
Uncertainty about Samsung earnings and profitability with shrinking margins in smartphones and televisions (3)
05/08/2013
Linked Articles
Google Squeezes Margins on Moto G Phone
Wall Street Journal 12/07/2013
Inside Samsung Phone: Samsung PartsWall Street Journal 05/08/2013
Reduced political uncertainty and the brighter future for U.S. business in 2014-2015
04/28/2013
Linked Articles
Small Businesses Anticipate Breakout Year Ahead
Wall Street Journal 01/01/2014
Uncertainty Is the Enemy of RecoveryWall Street Journal 04/28/2013
The steadily growing automobile market in China in 2014-2015 (5)- VW targets the youth market and the Transformer generation
03/15/2013
Linked Articles
VW to Bolster Its Output in China
Wall Street Journal 03/15/2013
China Lures More InvestmentWall Street Journal 04/25/2014
Japan increases wages to put behind it decade of deflation- the Bank of Japan target is for 2% inflation in 2014-2015
03/13/2013
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 03/13/2014
Japan Unions Win Best Raises in YearsWall Street Journal 03/13/2013
Russia's central banker Elvira Nabiullina, the ruble and central bank policies
03/12/2013
A central banker, former economy minister, who led Russia's changes for entry into the World Trade Organization, and policies to stabilize the ruble and Russia's economy during the emerging markets crisis of 2014.
Linked Articles
Putin Taps Pro-Market Economist as Banker
Wall Street Journal 03/12/2013
Russia Prepared to Let Ruble SlideWall Street Journal 01/30/2014
China's new leader Xi Jinping, the military and the Communist party- securing party and military ties with the idea of "China Dream"
02/14/2013
Linked Articles
For Xi, a 'China Dream' of Military Power
Wall Street Journal 03/13/2013
Vowing Change, Chinaâs Leader Airs Other Message in PrivateNew York Times 02/14/2013
President Obama's call for "our generation's task" to address a shrinking middle class and most of the questions remaining unanswered
02/13/2013
The economic patterns that are causing the middle class to shrink over two decades remain stubbornly in place, and the factors that have compounded this in recent years also remain unaddressed.
Linked Articles
Obama, in State of the Union, makes case that middle class is job one - The Washington Post
Washington Post 02/13/2013
Growth isn’t enough to help the middle class - The Washington PostWashington Post 02/14/2013
Setting the record straight and restoring the credibility of credit ratings- the U.S. Justice Department's struggle with S&P 2013-2015
02/05/2013
U.S. Associate Attorney General Dillery, the governments top negotiator in a $1.5 billion settlement in Jan 2015, says never has the Justice Department produced 290 million documents in discovery in Justice Department history.This is how many documents were produced in this case which he said showed S&P in serious breach of duty, which affected the U.S. financial system leading to many adverse consequences.
Linked Articles
S&P to Pay $1.5 Billion to Resolve Crisis-Era Litigation
Wall Street Journal 02/04/2015
S. & P. E-Mails on Mortgage Crisis Show Alarm and Gallows HumorNew York Times 02/05/2013
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