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The Week (October 20)

2016/ 10/ 22 by jd in Global News

“Hillary Clinton finished Donald Trump in the final debate of the presidential election…. There’s no other conclusion. We are now playing out the string. And the only question left after the debate is whether Trump and his hard-core supporters will accept his defeat.”

 

Bloomberg (October 19)

2016/ 10/ 21 by jd in Global News

Donald Trump entered the third and final debate with Hillary Clinton “far behind in the polls — further than any candidate has been able to make up with this little time before the election. And then the Republican nominee lost the debate, as he lost the previous two.”

 

Wall Street Journal (October 19)

2016/ 10/ 20 by jd in Global News

“China’s economic data are so consistent they’re hard to believe.” China’s 6.7% third-quarter growth was “perfectly in line with official targets and precisely as claimed in quarters one and two, a feat of consistency never before achieved. This is a reminder that China’s statistics remain fundamentally political.”

 

Reuters (October 18)

2016/ 10/ 19 by jd in Global News

International sanctions are hitting Russia hard. “Though the Kremlin shows no sign of backing down, it remains unclear whether Russia’s struggling economy can support its global aspirations. Moscow’s 2014 invasion of eastern Ukraine sparked a major recession. Economists have been looking in vain for signs of recovery ever since.”

 

LA Times (October 18)

2016/ 10/ 18 by jd in Global News

Donald Trump is famous for lashing out, but now he is also “targeting the very political system in which he is competing for the presidency. He is claiming that this election is ‘rigged’…. This is dangerous demagoguery, even for Trump.” A fundamental democratic principle is “respect for the outcome of elections even if your candidate isn’t the winner.”

 

Washington Post (October 16)

2016/ 10/ 17 by jd in Global News

“To regain its footing, Haiti will need help, and quickly.” Hurricane Matthew cruelly devastated the country. It was “the most crippling natural disaster sustained by Haiti, or any other place in the Western Hemisphere,” since the catastrophic earthquake that also struck the hemisphere’s poorest country in 2010.

 

BBC (October 16)

2016/ 10/ 16 by jd in Global News

“The second week of October will likely be remembered as the moment when the 2016 presidential campaign went careening off the rails and spinning into the void…. Gone is any semblance of moderation or talk of pivot and restraint. It’s red meat from here on out.”

 

New York Times (October 14)

2016/ 10/ 15 by jd in Global News

“He was a curious amalgam of modern and feudal: an American-born, Swiss-educated king who could not be criticized under Thailand’s stern lèse-majesté laws…. Perhaps it was because he was all these things that King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died on Thursday at age 88, became the personification of Thai nationhood in his 70-year reign. And that is also why his passing is so troubling to his country and its allies.”

 

Newsweek (November 13)

2016/ 10/ 14 by jd in Global News

“Poor vision is not a life-threatening condition,” but it affects 4.3 billion people worldwide and “is having a seismic impact on the economic and social development of countries around the world. A landmark report by Access Economics recently demonstrated that current rates of poor vision are costing the global economy an estimated $3 trillion a year—roughly equal to the gross domestic product of Africa.”

 

Forbes (October 13)

2016/ 10/ 13 by jd in Global News

“China’s export numbers for September are out and they show a fall of 10% in year on year numbers. This has caused global stock markets to stumble…. because the China export numbers are a reflection of demand in the global economy and if that’s weak then the global economy is weak.”

 

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