Wall Street Journal (January 11)
“Beijing’s erratic response to the falling yuan and stock prices has exposed policy disarray. But behind the scenes an important debate has been raging over how to revive economic growth that some analysts believe is below 5%.”
Tags: Beijing, China, Disarray, Economic growth, Erratic, Response, Stock prices, Yuan
Washington Post (November 18)
“The past month hasn’t been good for climate-change skeptics.” More evidence has been produced in support of climate change. While there is still much uncertainty about the specifics, “the debate should no longer be about whether the world is warming or whether there is reason to act. It must be about how to respond.”
Tags: Climate change, Global warming, Response
Fortune (August 19)
As for the European debt crisis, you can “expect more trouble.” Leaders have failed to provide “action that’s a step ahead of the markets…. Time has been wasted defending the indefensible before giving in to the inevitable…. Solutions that might have worked a few months earlier become insufficient as the contagion hits more countries.” All of this means the problems keep growing and “a wider, more expensive response is required.”
The Times—London (June 21)
BP has achieved “the absolute worst possible corporate response to an oil disaster.” The Times runs through BP’s missteps and especially takes CEO Tony Hayward to task. Hayward has become a “global laughing stock” at a time when BP and its shareholders need leadership.
