The Economist (June 14)
“The world must escape the manufacturing delusion.” Nearly everywhere you turn, “politicians are fixated on factories.” They want to win them, open them, expand them and bring them home. But this fixation “with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating…. the global manufacturing push will not succeed. In fact, it is likely to do more harm than good.”
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Washington Post (August 30)
“Enormous as it is, the number of people evacuated by air from Kabul since the end of July — about 122,000 — is not large enough.” Countless others, who are vulnerable, did not escape. “This is a moral disaster.”
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Wall Street Journal (October 3)
When the dust from all the debt crises settles, the “sure losers” are the young. “Virtually any political ‘solution’ on offer to the euro crisis or U.S. debt will essentially force people age zero to 35—jobs or no jobs—to spend their lifetimes paying off the rolled-over debt that bails out the politicians and guarantees benefit flows to the older half of the population, which will escape to worry-free graves before the crisis returns.”
