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Pope Francis and the challenge of the modern world in 2020
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 putting the working class, middle class and poor further behind each ten years. Pope Francis calls this a challenge for the modern world in his new book "Let us Dream- The Path To a Better Future." He says "we cannot return to the false securities of the political and economic systems before the pandemic, we need economies that give access to all of the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life, land lodging and labor."
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A Humble Pope, Challenging the World
New York Times 09/18/2015
Opinion | Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our HeartsNYTimes.com 11/27/2020
Finances stretched to limit by trillions of dollars in coornavirus aid packages and tax revenue from digital
05/15/2020
Linked Articles
Analysis | Why Digital Taxes Are the New Trade War Flashpoint
Washington Post 05/15/2020
France to impose digital tax with or without international agreementFrance 24 05/15/2020
What Bill Gates and France had in common in the fight for health preparedness
05/11/2020
France had learned lessons from SARS epidemic and prepared for the H1N1 epidemic at the time that Bill Gates of Microsoft was pushing for greater awareness of public health priorities. Today Gates says this was not enough, that he did not do enough and feels terrible about it. The irresponsible banking practices that caused the financial crises first in the global financial crisis of 2009 and then in the eurozone financial crisis that followed by 2011 led to the ditching of the pandemic preparedness effort in France and Britain. In all of the western world including the U.S. austerity practices were the response without addressing the root causes of financial crises. Investments in public services and infrastructure were neglected leading to a level of unpreparedness that is shocking. Countries in lesser developed countries with more consciousness of the importance of public services and care of the vast majority of people were better protected in the crisis as a result than the more developed countries.
Linked Articles
WSJ 05/11/2020
Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soonFrance 24 05/17/2020
Lessons for fighting coronavirus - from South Korea and Taiwan
04/12/2020
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East vs. West: Coronavirus Fight Tests Divergent Strategies
WSJ 03/13/2020
How has Taiwan kept its coronavirus infection rate so low? | DW | 11.03.2020DW.COM 03/11/2020
Lessons in Fighting the Coronavirus - Flattening the Growth Curve
04/12/2020
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These simulations show how to flatten the coronavirus growth curve
Washington Post 03/20/2020
Are Countries Flattening the Curve for the Coronavirus?NYTimes.com 04/03/2020
Lessons in fighting coronavirus - Italy
04/12/2020
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Lessons from Italy’s Hospital Meltdown. ‘Every Day You Lose, the Contagion Gets Worse.’
WSJ 03/17/2020
Italy’s Slow Progress in Fighting Coronavirus Is a Warning to WestWSJ 03/27/2020
Britain's Labour Party's struggle to find its soul
11/14/2019
A month before the December 2019 general election Britain's Labour Party struggles to find a connection to its working class and middle class heartland.
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Frank Dobson’s death is a reminder of Labour’s decay
The Times 11/14/2019
Robert Crampton’s election road trip: Labour finds hostility in its heartlandThe Times 11/14/2019
Economic losses of 3% in GDP per head with Brexit and 8% with no-deal Brexit leaving Britons poorer
12/01/2018
As the Brexit option becomes clear as a hit to ordinary Britons and the British economy prime minister Theresa May takes her deal to the British parliament for a vote. Most opinion says it will be rejected, if not rejected outright by Conservatives and Labour MP's. A second vote may be taken. The Opposition Labour Party prepares for a new election with a divided government.
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The Economist 11/30/2018
Don’t write off the prime minister’s deal just yetThe Economist 11/30/2018
The United States - Mexico Trade Agreement - removing the negative connotations of NAFTA with protections for American auto and steel workers
08/28/2018
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What the U.S.-Mexico Trade Pact Says
WSJ 08/27/2018
Trump Hails U.S.-Mexico Trade Pact, Says ‘We’ll See’ With CanadaWSJ 08/28/2018
New York Times reporter Schmidt's interview with U.S. president Trump in December 2017- the idea of "absolute rights" over the U.S. Justice Department
12/29/2017
Linked Articles
Opinion | A storm is gathering
Washington Post 12/29/2017
Analysis | 11 curious quotes from Trump’s New York Times interviewWashington Post 12/29/2017
The 1976 Montreal Olympics, the 2004 Athens Olympics, the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the Rio Olympics- decades long debt hangovers and costs growing from the $1+ billion in Montreal to $50+ billion in Sochi
08/24/2016
Developing and developed countries alike have seen the cost of the Olympics as a huge burden. Many countries or cities that committed to hosting the Olympic games during boom years were facing economic hard times by the time of the games. Corruption and mismanagement of public funds, overspending and cost overruns added to the problems. Citizens uproar caused cities such as Boston and Oslo to withdraw bids for the Olympics. The Olympics appears to be a costly way to show off a country, and raises questions about better allocation of funds in other directions, especially when upward mobility is a problem for the middle and working class, countries have other infrastructure needs, and neglected basic needs in education, healthcare, public services.
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The 40-year hangover: how the 1976 Olympics nearly broke Montreal
The Guardian 07/06/2016
Rio Games Highlight Problems With the Olympic ModelThe New York Times 08/23/2016
"Deaths of Despair", the causes and effects in a larger context, and the drop in America's ranking in the Social Progress Index to 19th in 2016
07/01/2016
How the middle aged white Americans 45-54 are faring in the current environment with fewer opportunities and greater vulnerabilities in health, education incomes, savings, quality of life, mortality, upward mobility, for this group. Tragically this means their children and the next generation is also affected in the way fewer opportunities are available in the future. The situation is unique to America with weaker social protection than Europe, and to Britain because of years of austerity. There are no quick fixes with easy slogans, and requires first a national awareness, national consensus, and may require the better part of a generation to solve and restore the hope and promise of Jefferson in making the "inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" available to all.
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Rising Death Rates for Middle-Aged White Americans Are Forcing a Policy Rethink
WSJ 06/30/2016
The U.S. Now Ranks 19th in ‘Social Progress,’ With Finland and Canada Topping the ListWSJ 06/30/2016
The pause in the U.S. economy with the May 2016 U.S. jobs report showing 38,000 jobs added
06/06/2016
Krugman discusses the U.S. May 2016 jobs report from the Labor Department. He says it will be harder to come up with a response to the political uncertainty in an election year, especially now that rates are near zero.
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Sharp Fall in U.S. Hiring Saps Chance of Fed Rate Increase in June
The New York Times 06/03/2016
A Pause That DistressesThe New York Times 06/06/2016
What Tesla after the pandemic's first wave has in common with VW in 2015 at the time of the diesel emissions crisis
09/10/2020
CEO pay packages shooting into space just before and just after the first wave of the pandemic.
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Elon Musk’s Payday Could Cost Tesla Shareholders Dearly
WSJ 09/10/2020
Volkswagen’s Ex-CEO Is Ordered to Stand Trial Over Emissions ScandalWSJ 09/09/2020
Finances stretched to limit by trillions of dollars in coornavirus aid packages and tax revenue from digital
05/15/2020
Linked Articles
Analysis | Why Digital Taxes Are the New Trade War Flashpoint
Washington Post 05/15/2020
France to impose digital tax with or without international agreementFrance 24 05/15/2020
Lessons for fighting coronavirus - the common practice of wearing masks in Asian countries to control virus
04/12/2020
Linked Articles
East vs. West: Coronavirus Fight Tests Divergent Strategies
WSJ 03/13/2020
Asia to Europe: A world of masks for coronavirus pandemic | DW | 01.04.2020DW.COM 04/01/2020
Lessons for fighting coronavirus - from the South Korea MERS outbreak in 2015
04/12/2020
Hospital to hospital transmission as a patient is transferred from one smaller hospital to two other hospitals in Seoul transmitting MERS to 37 patients along the way in 2015.
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Experts Fault South Korean Response to MERS Outbreak
New York Times 06/13/2015
MERS Virus’s Path: One Man, Many South Korean HospitalsNew York Times 06/08/2015
Lessons for fighting coronavirus spread- public gatherings at stadiums spread contagion quickly like wildfire
04/12/2020
Linked Articles
The Soccer Match that Kicked Off Italy’s Coronavirus Disaster
WSJ 04/01/2020
Coronavirus: Tracking the global outbreakBBC News 04/07/2020
Germany's Social Democrats SPD party's renewal effort following Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party in Britain
12/02/2019
Linked Articles
Angela Merkel’s coalition faces collapse as partner turns left
The Times 12/02/2019
Germany's SPD rank and file seek Labour's 'Corbyn factor' | DW | 08.02.2018DW.COM 12/02/2019
Report on Russian disinformation effort 2014-2017 by two cybersecurity companies for the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee
12/18/2018
Linked Articles
Opinion | What We Now Know About Russian Disinformation
New York Times 12/17/2018
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube Withheld Russia Data, Reports SayNew York Times 12/18/2018
Protecting the U.S. auto and steel workers, by replacing NAFTA- first trade deal of the Trump administration
08/28/2018
Linked Articles
Mexico Pact Eases Car Makers’ Concerns
WSJ 08/28/2018
What the U.S.-Mexico Trade Pact SaysWSJ 08/27/2018
The election of Lopez Obrador as president of Mexico in 2018 that accelerates the shift to higher labor standards in Mexico, a goal of renegotiated NAFTA treaty
07/03/2018
Linked Articles
Win by López Obrador Pushes Mexico Sharply to Left
WSJ 07/02/2018
Mexican Election Could Accelerate Nafta TalksWSJ 07/02/2018
Labor and trade unions in the U.S.- the crisis by 2016 after 8 years of a Democratic administration under president Obama
12/09/2016
Linked Articles
The White House’s claim that 800,000 manufacturing jobs were added during Obama’s presidency
Washington Post 12/09/2016
Trump era confronts organized labor with gravest crisis in decadesWashington Post 12/09/2016
Speaker Paul Ryan's House seat in Janesville, Wisconsin- improving economy in a U.S. midwestern factory town and the debate on trade, help for working class families
08/10/2016
The unemployment rate in Janesville, Wisconsin drops to 4.4% in May 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was over 9% following the closing of the GM plant and the recession from the 2008 financial crisis. A working class town Janesville was hit hard by the closing of the GM plant in 2008. Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post describes the impact of losing about 5000 jobs at the GM plant, and the problems typical of most manufacturing dependent towns. Throughout the period since being first elected to Congress in 1998 Ryan has continued to be able to get elected on the basis of faith, family and public service, even though some of his policies may not have helped the poor and elderly or laid off workers. Ryan voted for rescuing the auto industry and worked hard to keep the GM plant, and listens to his constituents, and as the economy recovered by 2016 won easily in this old industrial midwestern town. His influence in national politics gives Janesville an opportunity to be heard, as it tackles problems common to many midwestern towns in the U.S.
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Could Paul Ryan’s ideas help his struggling home town? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/19/2012
Paul Ryan beats outsider 'mini-Donald Trump' challenger in Wisconsin primaryThe Guardian 08/10/2016
Public focus on good governance, corruption and the rule of law- the situation in Mexico and Brazil in 2016
06/10/2016
The Worker's Party in Brazil and the PRI have seen a sharp decline in popularity by 2016 with public discontent over governance, corruption and the rule of law.
Linked Articles
Mexico’s Ruling Party Loses Gubernatorial Races in Several States
WSJ 06/10/2016
Brazil Workers’ Party, Leaders ‘Intoxicated by Power,’ Falls From GraceNew York Times 05/12/2016
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