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The Lure of China and Economic Activism 8 Apr 2010 | 04:41 pm
I wonder what do you think about Google’s decision to confront China’s censorship by pulling out of the country entirely despite a potential lost of profit for not doing its business with now the seco...
March's Winners and Losers 3 Apr 2010 | 04:39 pm
We are moving further away from the double dips danger! Last month the US economy added 162,000 jobs- a strong showing of a potentially more sustained recovery for US economy. Payroll gains are largel...
Behind President Obama’s Warning of “Double Dip” Danger 19 Nov 2009 | 08:57 am
Today, in an interview with Fox News in Beijing, President Obama warned that “the US economy could head into a ‘double-dip recession’ unless urgent steps were taken to rein back America’s mounting lev...
Sri Lanka and Trade Policy: Concession or Sanction? 27 Oct 2009 | 01:40 pm
The European Union last week produced an official notice derived from its year-long investigation on human right violation in Sri Lanka. Here are the Commission's final report, and the independent exp...
New Wave of Insider Trading Charges as Judge Approved Wiretaps for White Collar Crime Investigation 22 Oct 2009 | 07:07 am
It’s all over the news, and I should not be caught by surprise. Yet here I am becoming very disturbed by the loopholes in our financial institutions, which gave rise to an unprecedented amount of whit...
America's Third Nobel Peace Prize In A Decade 10 Oct 2009 | 05:43 am
At 4am, the news that president Obama received the Nobel peace prize came to me just as unexpected at it was for all of us. However, as the dust settled, and president Obama finally responded with his...
A Proposed Solution for California Budget Crisis 10 Sep 2009 | 04:18 pm
People pointed to California's divided government and the supermajority law, which requires the legislature to adopt a budget with a two-third vote as reasons that cause the ongoing budget crisis in t...
The Case Of Ben Bernanke 1 Sep 2009 | 08:57 am
Last week, most news applauded Obama’s reappointment of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Of the few commentators who opposed the reappointment, Morgan Stanley Asia's Stephen Roach ...
Sheehan is out of Retirement 28 Aug 2009 | 03:25 pm
I've talked about Cindy Sheehan before and was under the impression she had given up her war protest. I'm glad to read that Sheehan has once again taken up her charge and is dogging Obama while he is ...
Posner v. Macroeconomists 24 Aug 2009 | 09:37 am
This week brings a heated debate between Judge Posner and some prominent economists including Brad DeLong of UC Berkeley. The debate comes at the heart of my recent discussion with a lawyer who is als...
