The international media and some analysts in Israel are quick to say that recent protests signal the increasing influence of the long-dormant Israeli left and the arrival of the Arab Spring in Israel. Not quite, I’m afraid.A revival of the Israeli left would make President Obama’s life easier: Labor governments are usually more willing to […]
The Aspiring Chief Anklebiter has cancer, and his allies and enemies alike are pondering the future of Venezuela without him. Says the Washington Post: Chavez has not groomed a successor or built institutions that can manage a transition. He has concentrated all power in his hands, providing a focus for the opposition and leaving no space for […]
Huffington Post published an article about college students who use ‘Sugar Daddies’ in order to pay off their college debt. There’s even a website to facilitate intergenerational hookups. The deeply untrustworthy sources for the story claim that 35% of the site’s 800,000 members identify themselves as students. Those who enter an .edu email address to […]
“No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy”, said Amartya Sen in 1999.Sen needs a quick trip to Kenya, where the worst drought in sixty years has forced people to survive on wild fruits and food aid.Or perhaps the theory was that two countries with famines will […]
Looks like Europe is still winning the competition for world’s most financially irresponsible major player. As I told David Sanger yesterday the US is fighting with Europe and Japan in this competition, but the latest from Italy suggests that Europe is starting to pull ahead.
From the NYT: BEIJING —Chinese authorities on Monday accused Pakistan-trained Uighur separatists of planning and executing the first of two deadly attacks over the weekend that struck the ancient Silk Road town of Kashgar in China’s far-western Xinjiang region.The piece goes on to report some skepticism about the Pakistan claim; Chinese authorities don’t like the […]
Moore’s Law has become a foundational assumption in modern business and economic thought: that computer chip capacity will double every 2 years is an article of faith among singularity buffs and other technophiles.Think again: scientists now say progress could slow. The problem is not that they cannot squeeze more transistors onto the chips — they […]
Paul Krugman is throwing Obama under the bus. His latest column can be summarized like this: The idiot Republicans are turning the US into a banana republic; Barack Obama could have easily stopped them but he is feckless and weak.Obama was going to be the new Lincoln or FDR. Then the new Clinton. Then it […]
Top story of the day: manufacturing won’t save the US middle class. It won’t even save China’s. From The Financial Times: Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer by revenue, plans to increase the use of robots in its factories 100-fold to 1m within three years, according to Terry Gou, chairman and chief executive.The move […]
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