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How America is building a new chip manufacturing industry at home
07/22/2021
After years of neglect of manufacturing Intel Corp and other companies are building a new chip industry, as America reverses years of decline in manufacturing at home. The importance of manufacturing technologies and years of cumulative expertise in developing new technologies, are now seen as critical for American leadership. US president Biden pushed for these changes, leading to a new CEO and a U turn by Intel Corp.
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Intel CEO’s Chip-Building Plan Has a $50 Billion-Plus Price Tag
WSJ 07/16/2021
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone VulnerableWSJ 06/19/2021
Addressing coronavirus vaccine skepticism in the US and other countries
05/05/2021
Linked Articles
Faith, Freedom, Fear: Rural America’s Covid Vaccine Skeptics
NYTimes.com 04/30/2021
Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.NYTimes.com 04/30/2021
Netanyahu and Israel one year after lockdown- the vaccination drive and handling of the pandemic
03/23/2021
Linked Articles
Whichever way Israel’s election goes, Gantz is finished
The Times 03/23/2021
Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu faces election decision day | DW | 22.03.2021DW.COM 03/22/2021
America's self-reliant economy - Biden with Trumpian undertones
01/21/2021
The Biden administration is seen as continuing the efforts of president Trump to pursue American interests in trade, technology, American workers and business to restore America's leadership role in the free world to what it was in the 1950's. Biden from Delaware is in the same tradition as president Harry Truman from Missouri in that period. Because of Biden's age this could be a one term presidency, and strange as it may sound it could be a presidency of Trump in foreign affairs and trade, technological leadership, without the rhetoric, and a socially cohesive presidency of Democrats in the tradition of Harry Truman. What then to make of all the fights of the Trump presidency? Much of this can be seen as an effort to break the status quo which did not benefit American workers.
Linked Articles
Biden’s Economic Team Charts a New Course for Globalization, With Trumpian Undertones
WSJ 12/01/2020
Trump touts record of ‘no new wars’, standing up to China in farewell addressFrance 24 01/21/2021
Robert Lighthizer and the fight to make Made In America the new symbol of American revival
12/18/2020
Robert Lighthizer talks about the efforts under the Trump administration to bring American manufacturing back to where it was in the days after World War II, and restore the rights and dignity of American workers. For three decades the U.S. lost jobs and allowed its manufacturing to be outsourced hurting American workers and reducing the manufacturing base of the U.S. The efforts to ensure fairness in trade also protects American workers and manufacturing at home.
Linked Articles
How to Make Trade Work for Workers
Foreign Affairs 12/18/2020
We're proud of what we've done, says Trump's trade chiefBBC News 12/17/2020
How Silicon Valley failed America
12/09/2020
Linked Articles
Is Silicon Valley Funding the Wrong Stuff?
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2014
Whatever Happened to Silicon Valley Innovation?BusinessWeek 12/31/2008
Pfizer BioNTech Vaccine - the history of two Turkish born immigrant scientists in Germany and how it happened
12/02/2020
Linked Articles
How a Couple’s Quest to Cure Cancer Led to the West’s First Covid-19 Vaccine
WSJ 12/02/2020
Pfizer Gets $1.95 Billion to Produce Coronavirus Vaccine by Year’s EndNYTimes.com 07/22/2020
Building moderate income housing in suburbs for more integrated communities in America, change in cultural attitudes - putting money behind voices
06/06/2020
Linked Articles
Orlando Patterson explains why America can’t escape its racist roots
Harvard Gazette 06/06/2020
Democrats fail black voters and blame othersThe Times 06/04/2020
Twitter's short form of 140 characters, the iphone, and the tech platforms building on the declining cultural and other literacy in America, Europe, other countries
05/28/2020
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's regrets on what he sees as the lack of any depth in the short form that works well on mobile phones. The first smartphones came in 2007 and 2008 iphone and android versions, Twitter started in 2006, both growing at the same time, the story of a tech boom that is paralleled by declining cultural and other literacy in America. It also parallels the decline in sense of what is in the national interest among communities in America and Europe and in other countries, leaving them with fewer defences against the coronavirus pandemic by 2020.
Linked Articles
Opinion | A Presidential Smear
WSJ 05/26/2020
A Founder of Twitter Goes LongNYTimes.com 11/09/2013
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan discontent in Japan- the failing Renault-Nissan alliance
12/18/2018
Renault-Nissan's failure to invest in Japan and the lack of interest in Nissan under Ghosn added to worries in Japan about the compensation of Ghosn being larger than all nine top executives of Nissan combined. A deep sense of affront was felt in Japan as one executive put it -"where is the transparency and where is the frugality." This special report by WSJ shows how the ego based executive which is not typical of Japan failed Nissan. It also shows why this type of management is not healthy for companies or the employees and all stakeholders. Its hard driving nature with unhealthy lifestyles is also becoming unpopular today.
Linked Articles
The Fall of the House of Ghosn
WSJ 12/16/2018
Ghosn’s U.S. Push Irked Nissan ExecutivesWSJ 12/18/2018
Corporate America's choice between corporate buybacks and increasing wages/making capital investments for growth to help the middle class
03/01/2018
Linked Articles
Boom in Share Buybacks Renews Question of Who Wins From Tax Cuts
WSJ 03/01/2018
Corporate Tax Cut as Growth Elixir? Foreign Experience Suggests CautionWSJ 05/01/2017
America's rural-urban divide, educated-less educated divide, and views of the Trump voter
07/06/2017
Linked Articles
A special report on Donald Trump’s America
The Economist 07/06/2017
America’s urban-rural dividesThe Economist 07/06/2017
Sharp contrast between the Trump and Clinton economic plans- Trump's negative in the long run, Clinton's positive in the long run
10/18/2016
Economic experts look at the Trump and Clinton economic plans, Trump's based on extreme borrowing and Clinton's careful about deficits. Trump's plan aggravates the wide disparities in income in America after the tech booms and Clinton's reduces these disparities. Clinton's preserves global trading system while addressing the problems, Trump's moves in the direction of protectionism and high tariffs with potential unintended consequences for the global economy.
Linked Articles
Donald Trump’s Economic Plan, Up Close, Doesn’t Add Up
WSJ 10/18/2016
Donald Trump’s Tax Plan Would Boost Economy in Short Run but Not Long Term, Analysis FindsWSJ 10/17/2016
The origins of the coronavirus and the 2018 NIH lifting of a US ban on virus research that increases transmissibility
06/04/2021
Dr. Fauci, NIH, HHS, lifted the ban on research and manipulation of virus in lab settings in 2018 The role played by the Cambridge Group of scientists who opposed lifting the ban on gain of function research for surveillance purposes. The US public and the public in the world in India, Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America unaware of what was going on. The devastating effects of the coronavirus in 202 and 2021 and the lack of a vaccine in 2020, lack of a vaccine in sufficient quantities in 2021. The paltry benefits of surveillance compared to the great risks of something going wrong, as pointed out by the Cambridge Group. Why was it ignored in 2018. Who makes decisions for public health in the world. Can the US make decisions for India, the people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Does even the US public know about it, much less the public in the world at large. What power is given by the US Constitution to US government agencies on matters of public health. How are a few individuals at HHS and NIH accountable to the public in the US and the world at large.
Linked Articles
Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab
WSJ 06/03/2021
Ban on gain-of-function studies endsThe Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021
Biden's multi-trillion infrastructure spending plans for renewal of America
03/30/2021
Linked Articles
Live Updates: Learning From the Past, Biden Aims for Big Spending Early in His Term
NYTimes.com 03/30/2021
Behind Biden’s Big Plans: Belief That Government Can Drive GrowthWSJ 03/30/2021
Vaccine shortages in Europe and competing with Britain for scarce supplies
02/01/2021
Linked Articles
E.U. and U.K. Fighting Over Scarce Vaccines
NYTimes.com 01/27/2021
Michel Barnier tells EU to step back from Covid vaccine warThe Times 01/30/2021
The rendezvous of Jupiter and Saturn in 2020, the last in 1623, and the 200 billion stars in The Milky Way
12/22/2020
Linked Articles
The great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn | DW | 21.12.2020
DW.COM 12/21/2020
What 21 stars tell us about the Universe | DW | 22.12.2020DW.COM 12/22/2020
The MBA-ization of America, according to Elon Musk, fewer risks, less creative solutions and less ambitious targets
12/11/2020
Linked Articles
Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America
WSJ 12/09/2020
Tesla’s Cash Could Burn in Production ‘Hell’WSJ 08/03/2017
The San Francisco region and the destruction of Jobs in America
12/09/2020
As far back as 2008 Intel's Andy Grove a patriotic founder of technology business in northern California saw the danger in the San Francisco region based Silicon Valley taking a disproportionate amount of America's resources in capital and technology and in return not creating jobs for the American people.
Linked Articles
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
The New York Times 12/29/2016
Andy Grove: How America Can Create JobsBusinessWeek 07/01/2010
Indian effort to have coronavirus vaccine ready by August 15, 2020
07/23/2020
Linked Articles
India's Covid vaccine landscape: Here is a look at leading candidates
The Economic Times 07/22/2020
Can India really have a coronavirus vaccine ready by August? | DW | 08.07.2020DW.COM 07/08/2020
Breakthrough in vaccine for coronavirus - Astra Zeneca, Serum Institute and the Oxford Vaccine
06/05/2020
Serum Institute of India plans to manufacture 400 million doses of the Oxford vaccine by December 2020, in alliance with Oxford University and Astra Zeneca of UK.
Linked Articles
Drugs firm to begin making potential virus vaccine
BBC News 06/05/2020
How One Indian Company Could Be World's Door to a COVID-19 VaccineNYTimes.com 06/04/2020
Get low tech contact tracing going to reopen economy- the message from Germany to Europe and America
05/28/2020
Linked Articles
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdownThe Times 05/26/2020
Tesla's stalled effort in self-driving cars
04/02/2018
Linked Articles
Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent Among Its Engineers
WSJ 08/24/2017
Tesla Says Autopilot Was Engaged in Fatal Crash Under Investigation in CaliforniaWSJ 03/31/2018
Corporate America's choices between corporate buybacks and increasing stagnant wages/making capital investments in 2018
03/01/2018
Linked Articles
Boom in Share Buybacks Renews Question of Who Wins From Tax Cuts
WSJ 03/01/2018
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many WorkersThe New York Times 02/28/2018
The Women20 Summit in Berlin and the path for women to the workplace in Europe, the U.S., and other countries
05/08/2017
The views expressed at the Women20 Summit at the G-20 summit in Berlin reflect the views of women leaders including Angela Merkel. Problems women in the U.S. are facing are covered here by Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen. For the first time leaders of the stature of Merkel and Yellen are talking about these issues openly to drive the debate and clear the path for women.
Linked Articles
The real issues at Women20 | Business | DW.COM | 26.04.2017
DW.COM 04/26/2017
To Lift Growth, Janet Yellen Says, Make It Easier for Women to WorkThe New York Times 05/05/2017
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