The Wall Street Journal has just run a lengthy, front-page article entitled “Trump and His Debts: A Narrow Escape.” The article makes clear that Trump is a crony capitalist par excellence. It’s a well-known fact that Trump was in deep … Continue reading
Read more...In his New Year message, David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, promised to tackle the “moral outrage” of the UK’s housing crisis which is pricing “hard-working young people” out of the market. Hopefully, this will be the … Continue reading
Read more...In the first two parts of this series we talked about the “forward defence” and the “defend the border” strategies for responding to ISIS terrorism. Today, we will talk about the last alternative to emerge from the presidential candidates, which … Continue reading
Read more...In my first posting on this subject, we talked about what could be called the “forward defence” argument for military action against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Advocates of this strategy believe that to defend ourselves against ISIS terrorism, it … Continue reading
Read more...The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, have thrown the debate about ISIS into overdrive, particularly among the presidential candidates. Several strands have emerged from these discussions, but I think that their taxonomy is not often clearly … Continue reading
Read more...I just read an article in BloombergView yesterday by Cass Sunstein, who is a law professor at Harvard. It was a roundup of a number of books published last year on “behavioral economics” (which is an absurd descriptor, since all … Continue reading
Read more...The Wall Street Journal had an article this past week entitled “Tech’s Hometown Bank.” This has convinced me that Silicon Valley has replaced Wall Street as the new epicentre of financial malfeasance and conflict of interest. The article is about … Continue reading
Read more...(If you read the title of this quickly, you will note the slight play on words.) My post on Trump has generated a lot of comment, so I think that it is worthwhile to spend a little more time on … Continue reading
Read more...Donald Trump’s poll numbers continue to defy gravity. This requires greater scrutiny. A sacrifice is needed: actually listening to one of Trump’s speeches. And your intrepid correspondent has done this, all 95 minutes of the one he gave in Iowa … Continue reading
Read more...I have been following a lot of the reporting on the attacks in Paris. One question that I haven’t seen raised (but maybe I just missed it): The attackers at the Bataclan concert venue entered the building and starting firing … Continue reading
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