Financial Markets

George Friedman’s perspective . . . .   9/11 and the Successful War Created Sep 6 2011 – 03:54     By George Friedman It has been 10 years since 9/11, and all of us who write about such things for a living are writing about it. That causes me to be wary. I prefer being [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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. [...]

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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 Print this Buzz up! Email and share E-mail newsletters RSS TOKYO – In the post-cold war period, Japan has been continually buffeted by the winds of market [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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