Wall Street Journal (October 14)
“The two economies will be factors driving the choices voters make in November. The reality for Mr. Trump: Many achievements of his first economy have been wiped out by the second.” The post-Covid economy was “historically bad. It sent unemployment to depths unseen in post-Depression records before reversing itself quickly but only partially, leaving the U.S. with an outlook that’s especially hard to forecast.”
Tags: Achievements, Choices, Depression, Economy, Historically bad, November, Post-Covid, Trump, U.S., Unemployment, Voters, Wiped out
Chicago Tribune (March 6)
“We walk the Earth’s crust, we erect vast cities, we boast of our achievements. We see ourselves as the mistresses and masters of our fate.” With the coronavirus, however, “nature once again reminds us who’s boss.” The “little living form that now roils humanity is a virus” and it does not discriminate “in selecting its victims; great wealth has its privileges, but immunity from epidemics isn’t one of them.”
Tags: Achievements, Boss, Cities, Coronavirus, Earth, Fate, Humanity, Immunity, Nature, Victims, Wealth
Foreign Policy (June 13)
The Tory party has “bravely put party before country” and their “internal fights” have virtually “wrecked the U.K.” Any achievements the conservative “government might claim—record numbers of people in work, a ‘balancing of the books’—have been completely overshadowed by Brexit, a farce produced as a direct result of internal Tory squabbling and dissension.”
Tags: Achievements, Brexit, Conservative, Farce, Government, Overshadowed, Squabbling, Tory, U.K., Wrecked
Financial Times (January 8)
“Well, China circuit breaker, you had a good run…. A short life, to be sure. But you did achieve global fame. Let us not dwell on your passing. Let us celebrate your achievements. You came into this world on Monday; you were gone by Thursday. But in just four sessions you shut down the market twice. A 0.500 batting average, we could say.”
Tags: Achievements, China, Circuit breaker, Fame, Market, Short life
The Economist (June 27)
China has racked up many achievements in recent years. One of the more befuddling is the drop in suicides, which have been more than halved in a decade. “In the 1990s China had one of the highest suicide rates in the world.” Now they are among the lowest. “No country has ever achieved such a rapid decline in suicides. And yet, experts say, China has done it without a significant improvement in mental-health services—and without any national publicity effort to lower suicides.”
Tags: Achievements, China, Mental-health services, Publicity, Suicides
Washington Post (May 27)
The EU’s many achievements have been “accompanied by an ever-expanding bureaucracy and a loss of any purpose higher than crisis management, as if the powers that be in the European Union see ‘Europe’ as an end in itself, independent of its actual impact on the daily lives of ordinary people.” It is this disconnect that must be fixed, “otherwise, the very real benefits that union has brought will be at risk.”
Tags: Achievements, Benefits, Bureaucracy, Crisis management, Daily lives, Disconnect, EU, Fix, Higher purpose, Impact, Risk, Union
Washington Post (October 15)
“A reopening, for now, of government, a postponement for a few months of a possible default on federal debts, a promise to negotiate again over fiscal disagreements — in a rational, functional world, these meager accomplishments would not be cause for celebration. In today’s Washington, they would count as achievements.”“A reopening, for now, of government, a postponement for a few months of a possible default on federal debts, a promise to negotiate again over fiscal disagreements — in a rational, functional world, these meager accomplishments would not be cause for celebration. In today’s Washington, they would count as achievements.”
Tags: Achievements, Celebration, Default, Federal debt, Functional, Government, Rational, Reopening, Washington
