This week something highly unusual happened in America. The Prime Minister of a Foreign Country virtually promised on American soil to attack another country. Look what he said: And ladies and gentlemen, Israel must always preserve the right to defend itself. The Jewish state will not allow those who seek our destruction to possess the…
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…
We are at a critical juncture in Afghanistan. Recent events have cast very serious doubts about the viability of the current policy of training an Afghan army to take over from the US Military. The tragic deaths, murders really, of six Americans at the hands of their Afghan “colleagues” have damaged the hopeful intellectual basis…
When Cairo’s Tahrir Square was full of protesters a year ago, when the American media was full of talk of democracy in Egypt a year ago, we wondered about the nature of the post-Mubarak Egypt. We asked at that time whether the new Egypt would use a Russian, Iranian, Pakistani or a neo Turkish-Egyptian model….
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…
Update: On March 23, 2012, Knowledge@Wharton published a rejoinder from Macro Viewpoints to the original article that we discussed in our article below. Our rejoinder at Knowledge@Wharton can be read at Real Drivers of Corruption in India and the Rest of the World. We have written extensively about the level of corruption in Indian electocracy….
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…
This past year has been politically eventful for both America and India. Next year promises to be even more so. While the events might look different, the same macro forces are driving the events in our opinion. AmericaAs we enter 2012, all eyes are focused on the Iowa Caucus on January 3. This is the…
2011 began well for both America and India. The American stock market had closed 2010 with a 20% rally from the lows of August 2010. The American economy was expected to deliver reasonably good growth of about 3% in 2011. India was, of course, was riding the wave. The Indian Government forecast a growth of…
Below are this Blog’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2011 (in terms of viewer hits). 1. The Karna-Arjun Battle in The Maha-Bharat – Beyond Adjectives – September 20, 2008 – This is by far the most popular article since the inception of this Blog. 2. Gandhi vs. Lelyveld – Are Editors of Washington Post and…