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American leadership in the 21st century
02/11/2012
Linked Articles
Washington Post 11/17/2014
Why the World Needs AmericaWall Street Journal 02/11/2012
Reports by the Federal Reserve and Sentier Research on the decline in income and net worth, higher debt levels of American households
02/02/2012
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 02/02/2012
Americans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says - The Washington PostWashington Post 06/12/2012
Introduction of teacher evaluations in American schools in 2012
01/18/2012
Efforts to introduce the system of teacher evaluations.
Linked Articles
Teacher Evaluations Pose Test for States
Wall Street Journal 03/08/2012
Cuomo Pushes Teacher EvaluationsWall Street Journal 01/18/2012
The cost to Bank of America of the $2.5 billion acquisition of Angelo Mozilo's Countrywide is estimated at $40 billion in 2012
12/27/2011
In many ways the business practices at Countrywide were at the heart of the mortgage and real estate crisis of 2008. The cost of this for Bank of America is estimated at $40 billion.
Linked Articles
BofA's Blunder: $40 Billion-Plus
Wall Street Journal 06/29/2012
OverheardWall Street Journal 12/27/2011
The minimum wage, inequality, and Mexican Americans in New York City
11/24/2011
New York City as a microcosm of the situation for Hispanics and Mexican Americans in the U.S. Recent demographic changes show a large proportion of the population of children in the U.S. is Hispanic.
Linked Articles
No Money for a Living Wage? But Fat Abounds
New York Times 11/29/2011
Mexicans in New York City Lag in EducationNew York Times 11/24/2011
The case for increasing the minimum wage (5)- Mexican Americans and New York City
11/24/2011
Linked Articles
Mexicans in New York City Lag in Education
New York Times 11/24/2011
No Money for a Living Wage? But Fat AboundsNew York Times 11/29/2011
Crony capitalism and lack of opportunities in American capitalism as practiced today
11/12/2011
Linked Articles
Turning the Dialogue From Wealth to Values
New York Times 11/12/2011
Crony Capitalism and the Crisis of the WestWall Street Journal 06/06/2012
U.S. airlines (Delta, United Continental, American) capacity restraint 2010-2014 and U.S. Justice Department investigation for collusion
09/14/2011
Linked Articles
Justice Department Probes Airlines for Collusion
Wall Street Journal 07/02/2015
Carriers Keep Capacity in CheckWall Street Journal 09/14/2011
John Bogle of Vanguard Funds and the creation of index funds as a way to build a diversified investor portfolio - a seminal achievement
09/03/2011
An entire generation of Americans benefitted from the low cost index fund as away to build a diversified and less risky investment portfolio. Bogle created the first index fund tracking the S&P 500 in 1976, following the advice and encouragement of is economics professor at Princeton, Paul Samuelson.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2011
John Bogle, Vanguard's Founder, Is Too Worried to RestNew York Times 08/11/2012
Basic misunderstanding- (2) one point in the Israel-U.S. relationship on May 20, 2011, with president Obama's call for a return to pre-1967 borders
05/20/2011
When Ambassador Oren says Obama abandoned Israel he refers to moments such as the one on May 20, 2011, when Obama called for Israel to return to pre-1067 borders. At its shortest point the distance to Tel Aviv from the West Bank then was 9 miles, leading Israel says to "repeated wars," and not really a border for peace.
Linked Articles
In meeting with Obama, Netanyahu rules out Israeli withdrawal to 1967 borders - The Washington Post
Washington Post 05/20/2011
The 1967 Line of FireWall Street Journal 05/21/2011
Forgotten sacrifices in a forgotten war- the American people, military families and the war in Afghanistan
03/02/2011
Linked Articles
For one war widow, moving on is a marathon - The Washington Post
Washington Post 07/09/2012
Lt. Gen. John Kelly, who lost son to war, says U.S. largely unaware of sacrificeWashington Post 03/02/2011
Reviving American Manufacturing- What a declining manufacturing base does to America's productive base and capacity for innovation
02/12/2011
Linked Articles
U.S. Manufacturing Decline Raises Concern About Innovation
New York Times 02/12/2011
We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not MakersWall Street Journal 04/01/2011
Angela Merkel's experience with the reunification of East and West Germany and her views of the eurozone crisis
01/30/2011
The perceptions of the eurozone crisis of ordinary Germans and of former East German Angela Merkel are colored by the period of reunification of the two Germany's. This was paid for with a"solidarity surcharge" tax paid by Germans amounting to $1.7 trillion and led in its early stages to 4 million unemployed in the eastern part and 20% unemployment. It took over a decade for East Germany to build new modernized industries in the larger cities of the east, but still leaves the rural parts of former East Germany in a neglected state as young peoplemoved out. During this period industry in the west also regained lost global competitiveness, especially in industries such as automobiles and advanced machinery, using wage restraint agreements with unions and increases in productivity. Germans see the need for eurozone countries in the southern part of Europe needing to make similiar sacrifices and see the tax evasion in Italy and Greece as unacceptable. The real estate bubble, the lack of transparency for banks bad loans, and out of control regional spending in Spain is also seen in a similiar light. Greece is seen as the most egregious offendor because of the bad financial accounting that grossly understated the extent of the bad loans. Less publicized in Germany is the role played in the bad loans through poor lending practices of German and French banks and that as experts have pointed out Germany was to some extent bailing out German banks when it was bailing out Greece- till German banks reduced their exposure to Greece in 2011.
Linked Articles
In former East Germany, anxious residents resent paying for Europe’s problems - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/21/2012
Merkel's Defense of Euro Forged in East GermanyNew York Times 01/30/2011
Why America has a role to play as a leader for liberal democracy and free trade
02/10/2012
Much of the progress that the world has enjoyed in the last six decades is a result of America's leadership and championing of liberal democracy and its institutions, and free trade. A lot will be at risk if this role is jeopardized by a policy of indifference to American economic strength and astrong its manufacturing base, indifference to Europe as an invaluable partner of the U.S. with the same goals and ideals, and a new generation unaware of the role the U.S. played and continues to play in bringing the peoples of the world together around common goals and aspirations.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 02/11/2012
Now That The Sun Has SetWall Street Journal 02/10/2012
"Hiroshima" 1945 and the Siege of Leningrad 1941-1942 - What a post war Russian, American and Japanese generation could understand and what is lacking in the Middle East
01/27/2012
Noonan asks the question about what a post war generation of Americans, Russians and Japanese could understand about the horrors of nuclear war and of the Second World War, and how this is lacking in the Middle East as each nation strives for nuclear weapons from Iran to Saudi Arabia. Separately in another link Kaname Harada asks a different question- has a new generation in Japan born after 1945, both leaders and the public, forgotten about that period including "Hiroshima."
Linked Articles
Vladimir Putin Describes Loss of a Brother at Ceremony
New York Times 01/27/2012
Misplaying America’s Hand With IranWall Street Journal 04/04/2015
The U.S. Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation and American Airlines effort to cut pension benefits during bankruptcy restructuring
01/13/2012
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2012
New Tensions Over AMR's Pension Plan: Company Says Retiree Benefits Could Be CutWall Street Journal 01/13/2012
Sberbank's dominant position in Eastern Europe after withdrawal by Western European banks
12/13/2011
Russia's Sberbank acquires the Eastern European operations of Volksbank of Austria.
Linked Articles
Sberbank Looks to Buy Banks in Eastern Europe
New York Times 04/13/2012
Europe's Banks Retreat From the EastWall Street Journal 12/13/2011
The huge disparity betwen Mexican American high school dropout rates nationwide and in New York city, and the abysmal college enrolment rate
11/24/2011
Semple cites census data showing about 40% dropout rate for the Mexican American immigrant community in New York city, with no other minority community having more than a 20% dropout rate. The college enrollment rate for the Mexican American immigrant community is cited as ony 6% and cause for alarm considering the large Mexican American immigrant community in New York and and nationwide. This is much worse than the rate for the Mexican American community in the U.S. and for Hispanics in the U.S. as The recent Pew Hispanic Center study shows a 76% high school completion rate and a 46% college enrollment rate for U.S. Hispanics 18-24 years with a high school diploma for 2011.
Linked Articles
Mexicans in New York City Lag in Education
New York Times 11/24/2011
Hispanics' College Enrollment Surges, Report FindsNew York Times 08/20/2012
Efforts by Poland to maintain control of its banking sector as Western European banks withdraw from Eastern Europe
11/14/2011
Linked Articles
Poland Trying to Build Banks' Defenses
New York Times 04/13/2012
Polish Bank Chief Builds DefensesWall Street Journal 11/14/2011
Janet Yellen, lack of economic mobility from inequality, and "hollowing out" in American manufacturing with trade imbalances
09/27/2011
Linked Articles
Tallying the Toll of U.S.-China Trade
Wall Street Journal 09/27/2011
How Quantitative Easing Contributed to the Nation's Inequality ProblemNew York Times 10/22/2014
The disenfranchisement of the south, western and eastern coastal regions with U.S. presidential elections determined in midwestern battleground states
09/06/2011
Linked Articles
The Vanishing Electoral Battleground
New York Times 11/03/2012
The 2012 Election Will Come Down to Seven StatesWall Street Journal 09/06/2011
Basic misunderstanding- (1) one point in the Israel- U.S. relationship on May 20, 2011, with president Obama's call for a return to pre-1967 borders
05/20/2011
When Ambassador Oren says Obama abandoned Israel, he refers to the "surprises" and "no daylight" or open disagreements that marked the relationship during the two terms of the Obama administration. One such point was on May 20, 2011, with Obama's call for pre-1967 borders.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/16/2015
Netanyahu Rejects Obama Compromises on TalksNew York Times 05/20/2011
Holbrooke and the failed American approach in Afghanistan
05/14/2011
Linked Articles
India and Pakistan: The world's most dangerous border
Economist 05/21/2011
What Holbrooke KnewNew York Times 05/14/2011
The Fall of an American Icon- HP, Lee Apotheker and the Autonomy Acquisition Inc.
02/18/2011
The Autonomy acquisition charge of $8.8 billion announced by CEO Meg Whitman on Nov. 20, 2012, come at a time of declining sales and margins in its printer and PC businesses. The costly charges on bad acquisitions by H-P is likely to hurt investment in R&D for years.
Linked Articles
Hewlett's Loss: A Folly Unfolds By the Numbers
New York Times 11/20/2012
Chief Reboots H-P After ScandalWall Street Journal 02/18/2011
Transfer of American technology to China
02/02/2011
China's new policy is to require transfer of technology by American and European manufacturers as price of access to the Chinese market. This is affecting industries from aerospace to automobiles.
Linked Articles
The Roadblock in GM's Route Through China
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2011
U.S. Firms, China Are Locked in Major War Over TechnologyWall Street Journal 02/02/2011
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