Financial Markets

A nice thought peice . .
Keeping America’s Edge
JIM MANZI
The United States is in a tough spot. As we dig ourselves out from a serious financial crisis and a deep recession, our very efforts to recover are exacerbating much more fundamental problems that our country has let fester for too long. Beyond our short-term worries, and [...]

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Moscow
Just before Christmas in 1997, as a tumultuous stock-market crisis ravaged emerging markets in every corner of the globe, readers of the Wall Street Journal were treated to some good news: Russia was going to emerge from the mess unscathed. While conceding that “few debt markets outside Southeast Asia were hit harder by recent financial turmoil [...]

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Letter From Kabul
What the United States Must Overcome in Afghanistan
Kim Barker
KIM BARKER is Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Part I: Corruption
In his inauguration speech, Afghan President Hamid Karzai stressed the importance of the country’s fight against corruption and spoke of his commitment to ending “the culture of impunity and violations [...]

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Agree with Willem Buitler . . . stay tuned as 2010 could be another year of volatile financial markets as the difficulties spread to nation-states.

Willem Buitler : Professor of European Political Economy, London School of Economics and Political Science; former chief economist of the EBRD, former external member of the MPC; adviser to international organisations, governments, [...]

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A global market perspective that I agree with . . .

November 23, 2009
The Future That Was
China’s economic model is reminiscent of 17thcentury mercantilist policies. Thomas Mun, a Director of the East India Company, in England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664), wrote that the purpose of trade was to export more than you imported. At the same [...]

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Japan must shake off US-style globalization
The likely next prime minister outlines his hopes for a more Asia-focused Japan.
By Yukio Hatoyama
from the August 19, 2009 edition

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TOKYO – In the post-cold war period, Japan has been continually buffeted by the winds of market fundamentalism in a US-led movement that is more usually [...]

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BP lobbied Jack Straw before he changed mind over Lockerbie bomber
Sep 4th, 2009 by John Donovan.
Tom Baldwin and Philip Webster
Jack Straw was personally lobbied by BP over Britain’s prisoner transfer agreement with Libya just before he abandoned efforts to exclude the Lockerbie
bomber from the deal.
The Times has learnt that the Justice Secretary took two telephone [...]

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A perspective on cyber attacks . Read the whole peice here.

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Despite Rhetoric, Obama Still Following Cheney’s Lead in Dictatorial Justice

It seems like the former vice-president is the one piggybacking on the new president’s detainee policy spotlight, but a top foreign-policy analyst argues that, when it comes to tribunals, it’s the other way around: the Obama administration is maintaining the practice of inventing justice as America [...]

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May 14, 2009, 12:58 PM
Seven Reasons Why Obama’s Nuke-Free Utopia Won’t Work

The president wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Sounds like he’s fighting the good fight, but Esquire.com’s global-strategy expert argues that it’s absolutely the wrong one — a fight that might open globalization’s door to World War III.

By Thomas P.M. Barnett

Last month [...]

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