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Silicon Valley R&D at Google X, Microsoft Research and other creative labs
06/10/2014
Grouped Articles
Silicon Valley Tries to Remake the Idea Machine
New York Times 06/10/2014
An Innovation Slowdown at the Tech Giants
Wall Street Journal 07/02/2014
Is Silicon Valley Funding the Wrong Stuff?
Wall Street Journal 07/07/2014
Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule the Tech Economy
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2014
The Obama administration's actions on student loan relief in June 2014
06/10/2014
Grouped Articles
Student Borrowers and the Economy
New York Times 06/10/2014
Wall Street Journal 06/13/2015
Wall Street Journal 08/23/2015
Opinion | The Cost of Barack Obama’s Speech
The New York Times 05/01/2017
Nearly 5 Million Americans in Default on Student Loans
WSJ 12/13/2017
The insurgency in Iraq in 2014 against the Maliki government's sectarian policies- the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria
06/10/2014
Mosul on the border with Syria is taken by the insurgents ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) who operate on the Syrian side against Assad. Mosul is Iraq's second largest city with different ethnic groups. Foreign fighters operating in Syria have joined the ISIS. Maliki had lost support in Mosul with his increasingly sectarian policies favoring Shiites and marginalizing Sunnis. The Iraqi forces lack training and are poorly organized compared to the insurgents fighting the Assad regime in Syria. The U.S. lost any chance of maintaining peace in the region with policies of the Obama administration distancing itself in Iraq, Syria and towards Iran's non-sectarian democracy movement. With moderates left in the cold in the region, sectarian influences are taking control and undoing the hard work of previous administrations. The hopes of the heavily young demographic oriented Middle East region in 2011-2012 for economic progress are now fading first into religious extremism and then into sectarian religious conflict, with Putin's government in Russia allowed by the Obama administration to pursue reckless policies in Syria against the interests of people in the region. A no fly zone or action of the kind taken in Libya at very small cost to the U.S. was not taken by U.S. president Obama. The failed reelection bid of Sarkozy in France left Britain's prime minister Cameron with no allies to pursue prudent policies in Syria that would have advanced democracy and economic development in the entire region.
Grouped Articles
Sunni Militants Drive Iraqi Army Out of Mosul
New York Times 06/10/2014
Wall Street Journal 06/11/2014
Iraqi, U.S. Forces Trade Barbs Over Failures
Wall Street Journal 06/12/2014
Mosul Falls to ISIS, Endangering Iraq’s Democracy
New York Times 06/11/2014
U.S. Said to Rebuff Iraqi Request to Strike Militants
New York Times 06/11/2014
Sunni Fighters Gain as They Battle 2 Governments, and Other Rebels
New York Times 06/11/2014
Egypt in 2014-2015 under president Sissi
06/09/2014
Grouped Articles
With New Vows, Egypt Leader Takes Office
Wall Street Journal 06/09/2014
Repression in Egypt: Worse than Mubarak
Economist 05/09/2015
The Sissi regime continues Egypt’s repressive descent - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/19/2015
Mr. Kerry needs to speak the truth in Egypt - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/19/2015
The Sissi regime continues Egypt’s repressive descent - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/19/2015
Merck's acquisition of Idenix Pharmaceuticals for Hepatitis
06/09/2014
Grouped Articles
Merck Bids $3.8 Billion for an Edge in Hepatitis
New York Times 06/09/2014
Merck Agrees to Buy Idenix for $3.85 Billion
Wall Street Journal 06/10/2014
AbbVie Pins Hopes on Hepatitis C Treatment
Wall Street Journal 12/18/2014
Changes in the banking industry's connections with real estate 2006-2015: Real estate linked share of bank assets declines to 38.6% in 2014 compared to 48.6% in 2006
06/09/2014
Of the 38% only 12% are home loans in 2014. Bank earnings from real estate are discounted by the market after the bad experience of the 2008 financial crisis. The level of 38% was last seen in 1987.
Grouped Articles
U.S. Banks Move Away From Home
Wall Street Journal 06/09/2014
The changing demographics of minimum wage workers in the U.S. in 2014-2015
06/09/2014
Not just young people take minimum wage jobs as more people can only get part time low paying jobs following the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 06/09/2014
A part-timer boom, or blip? - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/16/2014
A Growing Economic Recovery Bypasses Low-Wage Workers and Their Tables
New York Times 12/14/2014
States’ Minimum Wages Rise, Helping Millions of Workers
New York Times 12/31/2014
Australia Weighs Whether Its Minimum Wage Is Too High
Wall Street Journal 01/26/2015
After a Bounce, Wage Growth Slumps to 0.1%
New York Times 03/06/2015
Safety problems and culture in the auto industry
06/08/2014
Grouped Articles
G.M. Report Illustrates Managers’ Disconnect
New York Times 06/08/2014
Fiat Chrysler Gets Record $105 Million Fine for Safety Issues
New York Times 07/26/2015
The Kei super small cars in Japan with 40% of the market in 2013, and government efforts to discourage sales in 2014
06/08/2014
"Kei" cars are not being exported because of a lack of safety features. The kei cars are very popular in Japan to the point of taking 40% of new car sales in 2013. This hurts Japanese automakers in gaining the economies of scale in the home market for other larger cars. The government response is to increase taxes by as much as 50% to reduce the price differential with regular small cars and discourage sales.
Grouped Articles
Japan Seeks to Squelch Its Tiny Cars
New York Times 06/08/2014
Japan Says Its Economy Contracted in Second Quarter
New York Times 08/16/2015
James Anderson of Baillie Gifford investment management firm in Edinburgh, Scotland, which runs the Vanguard International Growth Fund
06/08/2014
Zweig interviews Anderson of Baillie Gifford, on the focus on long term investing using tech companies such as Amazon and Apple. The need for shareholders to focus on long term investing and the trends in the market for a short term focus in 2013-2014.
Grouped Articles
Stock Picking for the Long, Long, Long Haul
Wall Street Journal 06/08/2014
Are Stock Prices Headed for a Fall?
Wall Street Journal 08/28/2014
A Foreign Affair Can Benefit Stock Investors
Wall Street Journal 11/22/2014
Wall Street Journal 11/28/2014
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2015
Four Reasons to Boost Your Foreign-Stock Exposure
Wall Street Journal 02/22/2015
Mexico's Anti Trust Commission
06/07/2014
Grouped Articles
Bank of Mexico Surprises With a Cut in Its Interest Rate
Wall Street Journal 06/07/2014
The situation facing Millenials group of young people in America and a similar situation in Europe and South Asia
06/07/2014
High student debt, few job opportunities, many stuck in minimum wage jobs or jobs that do not match their qualifications, an increasing number staying with parents, these are the common problems facing young people in the U.S., UK, France, Spain, Italy and other European countries. In developing countries such as India and the rest of South Asia a similiar sense of lack of job opportunities for young people.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 06/07/2014
New York Times 06/07/2014
Napolitano Looks for New Ways to Boost University of California's Coffers
Wall Street Journal 09/09/2014
Are Democrats Losing the Youth Vote?
New York Times 11/11/2014
Wall Street Journal 08/19/2015
Millennial Wave Unsettles Presidential Race
Wall Street Journal 02/16/2016
"No place in Michigan"- Morgenson of the NYT on aspects of the culture at GM (General Motors) leading to the recall crisis of 2014
06/07/2014
After the triple bankruptcies in Michigan of GM, Chrysler and the city of Detroit, the lost decade for Michigan and the continuing struggles of young people to find good job opportunities, there is no place in Michigan for the failed cultural practices of the past. Morgenson describes some of the practices at GM that led to the recall crisis of 2014. Other aspects of the same culture led to the bankruptcy at GM. The NYT columnist also takes up the issue for cultural practices in other parts of the country, in the financial industry based in New York- and in London, UK.
Grouped Articles
Gretchen Morgenson on the Problems at G.M.
New York Times 06/07/2014
G.M. Report Illustrates Managers’ Disconnect
New York Times 06/08/2014
New York Times 06/11/2014
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
Credit Suisse and Tech IPO's in 2012-2015
06/10/2014
Grouped Articles
Credit Suisse Makes Comeback to Tech IPOs
Wall Street Journal 06/10/14
How the Obama administration's policies in Syria, Iraq and towards Iran, have increased sectarian and religious conflict, and have pushed back democracy and economic development in the Middle East
06/10/2014
By allowing reckless intervention by Putin's Russia in Syria, and by its policies in the Middle East after the Arab Spring, the Obama administration has starved the hopes of an entire region heavily oriented towards a young demographic for participatory democracy and economic development, leaving it to descend into religious conflict, and then into sectarian conflict.
Grouped Articles
Sunni Militants Drive Iraqi Army Out of Mosul
New York Times 06/10/14
Mosul Falls to ISIS, Endangering Iraq’s Democracy
New York Times 06/11/14
U.S. Scrambles to Help Iraq Fight Off Militants as Baghdad Is Threatened
New York Times 06/12/14
Veterans Watch as Gains Their Friends Died for Are Erased by Insurgents
New York Times 06/13/14
Obama Finds He Can’t Put Iraq War Behind Him
New York Times 06/13/14
Iraqi Shiite Cleric Issues Call to Arms
New York Times 06/13/14
The defeat of Eric Cantor in Virgina's conservative Congressional district showing how quickly sentiment can change on the ground before it is detected nationally
06/10/2014
Grouped Articles
Eric Cantor Defeated by David Brat, Tea Party Challenger, in Primary Upset
New York Times 06/10/14
Once Snubbed, David Brat Turns the Tables
New York Times 06/11/14
Boom and bust in Australia's commodities driven economy- Moranbah, Queensland, Australia in 2014-2015
06/09/2014
Grouped Articles
An Australian Boom Town Feels Chill of Commodity Price Decline
Wall Street Journal 06/09/14
Wall Street Journal 11/13/14
China’s Slowdown Hits Price of Iron Ore
Wall Street Journal 12/01/14
Australia Faces Painful Choices in Economic Slowdown
Wall Street Journal 12/08/14
Commodities Fall as Stockpiles Mount Up
Wall Street Journal 01/19/15
Australia Seeks Cure for Its Mining Hangover
Wall Street Journal 05/05/15
Assessing the United- Continental merger four years later in 2014
06/09/2014
Grouped Articles
United Continental: One Sick Bird
Wall Street Journal 06/09/14
American, United Launch Buybacks
Wall Street Journal 07/25/14
United Continental CEO Oscar Munoz Suffers Heart Attack
Wall Street Journal 10/16/15
U.S. banks shifting away from real estate linked assets- a shift by 2014 back to where it was in 1987 of 38%
06/09/2014
Grouped Articles
U.S. Banks Move Away From Home
Wall Street Journal 06/09/14
The failure of social spending supported by oil to improve economic conditions and the standard of living- the case of Venezuela and Iran
06/09/2014
A critical factor in this situation is the failure to integrate into the world economy. Under these conditions for Iran sanctions for a nuclear program and support for Syria's regime creates a sort of "pariah" status, and for Venezuela the rhetoric and state control have led to a similar situation. Because technological inputs and foreign capital and knowhow are critical for development, policies of this kind can do long term damage to the economy and reduce standards of living. Both countries have failed to invest in basic refining capacity. At the other side is Nigeria which has also failed to invest in refining capacity. In Nigeria rampant corruption eats away at the core. All three countries are oil producing countries with crumbling infrastructure and failure of the state to provide the right direction to stimulate growth.
Grouped Articles
Venezuela Pays Price for Smuggling
Wall Street Journal 06/09/14
Oil, Auto Companies Make Plans to Invest in Iran if Sanctions Ease
Wall Street Journal 07/02/14
Venezuela's Auto Industry in a Free Fall
Wall Street Journal 07/22/14
Fall in Oil Prices Poses a Problem for Russia, Iraq and Others
New York Times 10/15/14
Iran poised to choose poverty over nuclear disarmament - The Washington Post
Washington Post 11/01/14
Fall in Oil Prices Threatens Africa’s Economic Growth
Wall Street Journal 12/12/14
Safety problems and culture from Fukushima and BP to Toyota and GM
06/08/2014
Grouped Articles
G.M. Report Illustrates Managers’ Disconnect
New York Times 06/08/14
The Japanese car market in 2013-2015
06/08/2014
Grouped Articles
Japan Seeks to Squelch Its Tiny Cars
New York Times 06/08/14
Japan Seeks to Squelch Its Tiny Cars
New York Times 06/08/14
Practices on hiring, selecting people for projects, culture, and managing, from Quintiq CEO, Victor Allis
06/07/2014
Grouped Articles
Stumped? Invoke the 5-Minute Rule
New York Times 06/07/14
Bank of Mexico's interest rate policy
06/07/2014
Grouped Articles
Bank of Mexico Surprises With a Cut in Its Interest Rate
Wall Street Journal 06/07/14
Mexico is growing less pessimistic about Donald Trump
The Economist 04/14/17
Bank of Mexico
06/07/2014
Grouped Articles
Bank of Mexico Surprises With a Cut in Its Interest Rate
Wall Street Journal 06/07/14
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