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U.S. presidential nomination process for Republicans and Democrats- the role of primaries since Eisenhower and after 1968
04/15/2016
Fareed Zakaria points out that primaries became important after 1968. Till the Eisenhower period nominations were made by the Republican and Democratic parties, with compromise and moderation as part of politics. The primary process is fraught with dangers that a candidate appealing to popular passions and no serious programs can bring a fringe group or politician to the presidency. The turnout in primaries is considered high when it reached about 15%, so that the views of about 85% are not reflected in the primary wins, even though this receives so much media attention that it appears that a real election has taken place.
Grouped Articles
In defense of the GOP - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/2016
Many Democrats want to face Trump in November. They’re wrong. - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/2016
It’s Eisenhower Time for the Republicans
Wall Street Journal 04/25/2016
Brazilian Congressman Eduardo Cunha of the lower House and corruption investigations in Brazil in 2016
04/15/2016
The bizarre situation in Brzil where Congressman facing corruption investigations are conducting the impeachment proceedings against president Rousseff in 2016.
Grouped Articles
Politician Leading Charge to Impeach Dilma Rousseff Has His Own Legal Tangles
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2016
Economist 04/29/2016
Brazil Workers’ Party, Leaders ‘Intoxicated by Power,’ Falls From Grace
New York Times 05/12/2016
Wife of Suspended Brazilian Lower-House Speaker Eduardo Cunha Indicted
WSJ 06/10/2016
Ex-President of Brazil Sentenced to Nearly 10 Years in Prison for Corruption
The New York Times 07/12/2017
Citigroup and the Dodd-Frank legislation on "too big to fail"
04/15/2016
Grouped Articles
Shrunken Citigroup Illustrates a Trend in Big U.S. Banks
New York Times 04/15/2016
Where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Wall Street
WSJ 09/16/2016
Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign strategies for a contested Republican convention following the Wisconsin primary
04/14/2016
The Cruz campaign focusses on California and other states such as Nebraska, and on delegate selection, as it plans for a contested convention and winning on the second ballot.
Grouped Articles
Inside Ted Cruz’s novel strategy for winning from behind - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/14/2016
In defense of the GOP - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/2016
Many Democrats want to face Trump in November. They’re wrong. - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/2016
The impeachment vote for president Dilma Rousseff in Brazil's parliament in 2016
04/14/2016
Grouped Articles
How Brazil, the darling of the developing world, came undone - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/2016
Dilma Rousseff Targeted in Brazil by Lawmakers Facing Scandals of Their Own
New York Times 04/14/2016
Politician Leading Charge to Impeach Dilma Rousseff Has His Own Legal Tangles
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2016
Brazil’s lower house of Congress votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2016
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2016
Vote to Impeach Rousseff Prompted Cheers, But Won’t End Turmoil in Brazil
New York Times 04/18/2016
Corruption in Brazil's Congress and the impeachment vote on president Rousseff
04/14/2016
Grouped Articles
Dilma Rousseff Targeted in Brazil by Lawmakers Facing Scandals of Their Own
New York Times 04/14/2016
Politician Leading Charge to Impeach Dilma Rousseff Has His Own Legal Tangles
Wall Street Journal 04/15/2016
Brazil’s lower house of Congress votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/2016
Wall Street Journal 04/18/2016
Vote to Impeach Rousseff Prompted Cheers, But Won’t End Turmoil in Brazil
New York Times 04/18/2016
Economist 04/29/2016
Donald Trump's finances and tax returns
04/13/2016
Grouped Articles
Every presidential candidate should release full tax returns - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/13/2016
Trump’s Campaign Spending on the Rise
Wall Street Journal 04/22/2016
Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit
The New York Times 06/20/2016
How Much Does Donald Trump Pay in Taxes? It Could Be Zero
The New York Times 08/11/2016
The New York Times 08/12/2016
Mark Sanford: I Support You, Donald Trump. Now Release Your Tax Returns.
The New York Times 08/15/2016
Living wills for designated "systemically important financial institutions"- the situation in 2016
04/13/2016
Met Life and GE Capital have questioned their designation as posing sustemic risk to the financial system. The living wills are not completed in 2016 as required by law and problems remain.
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 04/13/2016
Regulators Set to Reject Some Big Banks’ ‘Living Wills’
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2016
What Citigroup’s ‘Living Will’ Win Means for Big Banks
Wall Street Journal 04/14/2016
Regulators Warn 5 Top Banks They Are Still Too Big to Fail
New York Times 04/13/2016
How Regulators Mess With Bankers’ Minds, and Why That’s Good
New York Times 04/14/2016
Saturated fats and the American diet
04/13/2016
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 04/13/2016
Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals
The Guardian 09/14/2017
Burberry marketing
04/13/2016
Grouped Articles
Burberry’s CEO Fights to Gain Luxury Customers
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2016
2016 Survey of shifting Arab public opinion favoring stability and seeing terrorism as a result of unemployment not religion
04/12/2016
The survey by ASDA Burston Marsteller shows over 80% with negative perceptions of terrorist groups, and see unemployment as the main motivation for joining such groups. There is a general disillusionment with the Arab Spring movements and favoring stability in 2016.
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 04/12/2016
Facebook and the use of chatbots for its Messenger messaging service
04/12/2016
Grouped Articles
Facebook Bets on Bots for Its Messenger App
New York Times 04/12/2016
Opinion | What We Now Know About Russian Disinformation
New York Times 12/17/2018
The Republican Party at the grassroots- a view from the 4th Congressional District in Indiana
04/15/2016
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 04/15/16
German comic Bohmermann's satirical poem on German television- Merkel, Erdogan, and free speech in Germany
04/15/2016
Turkey's president Erdogan protests the airing of a satirical poem by Bohmermann on German television critical of him. Erdogan seeks to prosecute the comic in German courts.
Grouped Articles
German Comic Who Lampooned Erdogan to Extend Break From TV Show
New York Times 04/16/16
Angela Merkel Draws Criticism for Allowing Turkey’s Case Against Comic
New York Times 04/15/16
There once was a prickly sultan
Economist 04/19/16
Corey Lewandoski, manager of the Trump U.S. presidential campaign
04/14/2016
This NYT story looks at Corey Lewandoski's role in local government in New Hampshire. Lewandoski also worked for Americans for Prosperity, supported by the Koch Brothers.
Grouped Articles
Before Trump Campaign, Corey Lewandowski Rode Herd on a Town’s Leaders
New York Times 04/14/16
Trump Can’t Break the Republican Party
Wall Street Journal 04/15/16
Washington Post 04/17/16
Washington Post 04/24/16
Donald Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit
The New York Times 06/20/16
What Donald Trump Learned From Joseph McCarthy’s Right-Hand Man
The New York Times 06/20/16
Citigroup's "living will" approved by the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2016
04/14/2016
Grouped Articles
What Citigroup’s ‘Living Will’ Win Means for Big Banks
Wall Street Journal 04/14/16
Shrunken Citigroup Illustrates a Trend in Big U.S. Banks
New York Times 04/15/16
Canada's approach to assisted suicide for terminally ill patients
04/14/2016
Grouped Articles
Justin Trudeau Seeks to Legalize Assisted Suicide in Canada
New York Times 04/14/16
On a Staten Island Ferry before the New York Primary on April 19, 2016
04/14/2016
A Hungarian immigrant who like Putin, a female worker at a homeless pantry who says there are too many immigrants at the pantry, a disabled construction worker who dislikes Trump's abortion comments but supports him, other construction workers who admire his toughness on terrorism- these are some of the faces on the Staten Island Ferry of people favoring Trump because he would fix things even though some have doubts they are willing to suppress. Other faces are the Latinos, blacks, and millenials in the background who despise Trump. Staten Island is cut off from subway access to the city and is one of the boroughs of New York with a mostly white 500,000 population.
Grouped Articles
Aboard the Staten Island Ferry, a snapshot of Donald Trump’s New York - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/14/16
In defense of the GOP - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/15/16
Winners and losers from the New York primary - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/20/16
The Cruz campaign strategy in the New York and eastern state Republican primaries
04/13/2016
The Cruz campaign focusses on heavily Democratic Congressional districts such as the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, Albany, in an effort to pick up delegates from these Congressional districts and reduce Trump's tally in New York state.
Grouped Articles
Ted Cruz Campaigns in Unlikely Places in Hunt for Republican Delegates
Wall Street Journal 04/13/16
Winners and losers from the New York primary - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/20/16
Oil inventories and oil prices in 2016
04/13/2016
Grouped Articles
Weak Oil Prices Curbing Production
Wall Street Journal 04/13/16
Oil prices, financial markets sink after production limit plan fails - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/18/16
How American Shale Drillers Flipped OPEC’s Script
WSJ 05/24/17
Iranians coping with lower subsidies in 2016
04/13/2016
Grouped Articles
Iranian Parliament Cancels Cash Subsidies to 24 Million People
New York Times 04/13/16
The Russian economy in 2016 following the collapse in oil prices
04/12/2016
Grouped Articles
Why the Russian Economy Is Tumbling
New York Times 04/12/16
For the Kremlin, winning a supermajority in the Russian parliament was the easy part
Washington Post 09/21/16
U.S. Sanctions Give Russian Economy an Unintended Boost
WSJ 10/16/18
Oil Falls Most Since 2015 on Fears of Oversupply
WSJ 11/13/18
Saudis Struggle to Share Pain of Pumping Less Oil
WSJ 11/30/18
Elvira Nabiullina- head of Russia's central bank and the careful management of the economy during the collapse of oil prices- 2014-2016
04/12/2016
The careful management by Nabiullina has enabled Russia to avoid the worst effects of a collapse in oil prices. Experts say what Russia needs even more than a recovery in oil prices is the improvement in business conditions after interest rates of as high as 17% are bringing inflation closer to the target of 4%. Russia's rainy day fund of $500 billion in sovereign wealth fund, the devaluation of the rouble, help to the banking system to recapitalize, Russia's vastly expanded pension funds as a source of capital, and assistance to poorer sections of society, have enable Russia to cope with the collapse in oil prices. Yet much more needs to happen for a diversified economy and better relations with European Union to increase foreign investment and improve business climate.
Grouped Articles
Economist 04/19/16
Why the Russian Economy Is Tumbling
New York Times 04/12/16
Globalization: Capitalism Should Be Nicer | ZEIT ONLINE
ZEIT ONLINE 07/29/16
For the Kremlin, winning a supermajority in the Russian parliament was the easy part
Washington Post 09/21/16
U.S. Sanctions Give Russian Economy an Unintended Boost
WSJ 10/16/18
Italy's privately funded investment vehicle setup in 2016 to recapitalize weak banks
04/12/2016
To assist with the economic recovery Italy plans to use the investment vehicle to recapitalize weak banks.
Grouped Articles
Italy Agrees on Fund to Support Battered Lenders
Wall Street Journal 04/12/16
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