Economist (April 7)
China’s military buildup is causing concern. “As America and the big European powers reduce their defence spending, China looks likely to maintain the past decade’s increases of about 12% a year…. The country is on course to become the world’s largest military spender in just 20 years or so.”
China’s military buildup is causing concern. “As America and the big European powers reduce their defence spending, China looks likely to maintain the past decade’s increases of about 12% a year…. The country is on course to become the world’s largest military spender in just 20 years or so.”
Tags: China, Defense spending, Europe, Military, U.S.
Washington Post （April 6）
“The world’s most significant social, political and economic development is its aging population….Within five years, for the first time in history, the number of adults 65 and older will exceed the number of children younger than 5, the World Health Organization reports. By mid-century, this demographic will outnumber children younger than 14, and more than 2 billion of the people on Earth will be 60 or older.”
“The world’s most significant social, political and economic development is its aging population….Within five years, for the first time in history, the number of adults 65 and older will exceed the number of children younger than 5, the World Health Organization reports. By mid-century, this demographic will outnumber children younger than 14, and more than 2 billion of the people on Earth will be 60 or older.”
Tags: Aging, Demographics, Population, WHO
Wall Street Journal (April 5)
If North Korea’s test missile flies over Japan, “the U.S. should do everything it can to help Japan follow through” by shooting down the missile. “The Taepodong 2 has a range of 6,000 kilometers, so a successful test could put Alaska at risk. Previous tests may have been duds, but nobody should treat them as jokes.”
If North Korea’s test missile flies over Japan, “the U.S. should do everything it can to help Japan follow through” by shooting down the missile. “The Taepodong 2 has a range of 6,000 kilometers, so a successful test could put Alaska at risk. Previous tests may have been duds, but nobody should treat them as jokes.”
Tags: Alaska, Japan, Missile test, North Korea, Taepodong 2, U.S.
Los Angeles Times (April 4)
Where is the outrage? “In North Korea, children are bred like livestock in labor camps. They are taught to betray their parents. They are worked to death.” Three generations of the Kim dynasty have now “presided over this human rights catastrophe.” Six labor camps house 200,000 inmates who “do hard labor while subsisting on a starvation diet…. They usually die of hunger-related illness before turning 50.” Still America takes little notice.
Where is the outrage? “In North Korea, children are bred like livestock in labor camps. They are taught to betray their parents. They are worked to death.” Three generations of the Kim dynasty have now “presided over this human rights catastrophe.” Six labor camps house 200,000 inmates who “do hard labor while subsisting on a starvation diet…. They usually die of hunger-related illness before turning 50.” Still America takes little notice.
Tags: Human rights, Hunger, Kim, Labor camps, North Korea, U.S.
Washington Post (April 2)
“Though some visitors to China, dazzled by the high-rises and humming factories, may miss the point, the true sources of long-run stability and prosperity, for any nation, are the rule of law and transparent government. China still has neither.”
Tags: China, Government, Law, Prosperity, Transparency
New York Times (April 1)
Congress just passed the “deeply flawed” JOBS Act. President Obama should not sign this bill which “rolls back important investor safeguards from the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley law and the post-financial crisis Dodd-Frank law.” If it becomes law, it “is an invitation to a fresh round of financial malfeasance…sooner or later, investors will be harmed by its heedless weakening of important protections.”
Tags: Congress, Dodd-Frank, Investors, JOBS Act, Safeguards, SOX, U.S.
Barrons (March 31)
An apple a day may keep the doctor away. It certainly improves the S&P’s performance. “Without Apple, first-quarter profits for the Standard & Poor’s 500 would have been up only 10%, not the 13% reported.”
An apple a day may keep the doctor away. It certainly improves the S&P’s performance. “Without Apple, first-quarter profits for the Standard & Poor’s 500 would have been up only 10%, not the 13% reported.”
