Crisis in Europe & “The Great Rebalancing” by Michael Pettis

This week the European Crisis reemerged. The European Union acted with utterly inconceivable stupidity in confiscating a portion of monies of depositors in Cyprus banks. Reportedly this was a German decision that was imposed on Cyprus in a do it or go bankrupt fashion demonstrating that the European Union is becoming a German-led autocracy rather…

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Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 16 – March 22, 2013)

Editor’s Note:  In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever.  No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…

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Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 9 – March 15, 2013)

Editor’s Note:  In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever.  No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…

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Columbia & Lee Bollinger vs. UPenn & Amy Gutmann – The Modi Saga

Rarely does an American University become the topic of vehement debate on India’s raucous television networks. That dubious distinction was earned by the University of Pennsylvania (“UPenn”) and its business school Wharton. Wharton runs an annual India Forum that until this year was very well respected and attended. The Forum had extended an invitation to…

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Interesting Videoclips of the Week (March 2 – March 8, 2013)

Editor’s Note:  In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever.  No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…

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This Week at Macro Viewpoints

Below are articles published on Macro Viewpoints this week: India’s Best Restaurants – Our Choices vs. S. Pellegrino’s & Margherita Stancati’s >>>> Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman et al on India – Blinders, Myopia or Closed Feedback Loop? >>>> Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 25 – March 1, 2013) >>>>

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Anne Applebaum, Tom Friedman et al on India – Blinders, Myopia or Closed Feedback Loop?

We like reading Tom Friedman’s articles about India. We may have been critical of him, more critical than perhaps any one else has been. But we like him. His flattery of India pleases us, his rationale strokes our collective ego. He always seem enthralled with what learns in India. His expressions are reminiscent of the…

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Interesting Videoclips of the Week (February 25 – March 1, 2013)

Editor’s Note:  In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever.  No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions…

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