The Brave Nation That Walmart Made: 'Caring More About Cheap Asian Seafood...
Americans have a choice between cheap fish or a fairer world. So far they have voted with their pocket book.
View ArticleWeighing Vietnam's Future: China-Style Over-Achiever Or India-Style...
A new movie shines light on how poor the Vietnamese were just a generation ago. How well have they done since?
View Article"FIFA Methods" Used To Choose World's Top 100 Restaurants?
A magazine in London has just published its list of the world's best restaurants. Unfortunately its selection process seems to be based on a pattern of mutual backscratching that would not look out of...
View ArticleObama's Troubled 'Anti-China' Trade Pact Probably Contains A Secret Pro-China...
President Obama imagines his Trans-Pacific Partnership will slow China's rise. He's wrong and Congress did the right thing in derailing the deal yesterday.
View ArticleWith Europe Phasing Out The Euro-Cent, Is It Time America Junked The Lincoln...
The Eurozone is phasing out the Euro-cent. It is just too expensive to mint and it is a nuisance for consumers. Should the U.S. follow suit with the Lincoln penny?
View ArticleThe Story In Japan Is Not That Blacks Are Excluded But That Truth Has Been...
Many mixed-race children were born during the American occupation of Japan in the latter half of the 1940s and the early 1950s. What happened to them?
View ArticleChinese Stock Prices May Be Crazy, But The Economy Will Keep On Truckin',...
Americans spend too much worrying about a Chinese economic crash, says economist Pat Choate. Stock weakness notwithstanding, the Chinese economy is likely to continue to outperform for at least five...
View ArticleBiggest Invention: The Transistor, The Internet....Or The Air-Conditioner?...
The Singaporean patriarch Lee Kuan Yew once named air conditioning the most important invention of the twentieth century. He was probably being economical with the truth.
View ArticleThe Toshiba Affair, An Incompetent Press, And A Big, Big Unanswered Question
The international press has missed the big story in the Toshiba affair: an affiliate of one of the global Big Four auditing firms has been caught asleep at the switch.
View ArticleJapan Takes The FT: This Will Not End Well
The FT is one of the crown jewels of British culture. Why is it being sold to Japan, a nation with an entirely different -- and often incompatible -- culture?
View ArticleWronged?: An Unwed English Mother, A Flinty Japanese Employer, And History's...
Susanne Bayly's partner died in a Japanese air crash 30 years ago, yet she alleges that to this day she has not been adequately compensated. The case reveals important differences in Western and East...
View ArticlePayback For A Bankrupt Britain?: Chinese President Xi's Stinging Insult To...
China's President Xi Jinping has dealt a stinging insult to the British royal family. Prince Charle's support for the Dalai Lama seems to be at the bottom of it.
View ArticleAfter Amazon's Crackdown, Will The Fake Customer Review Industry Just Move...
Amazon has launched a courageous initiative to crack down on fake customer reviews. Unfortunately in today's globalized markets it is easy for the fake review industry to move offshore.
View ArticleIs The Harvard Business Review A Con Job That Treats Its Readers As 'Fat,...
Does the Harvard Business Review actually understand business -- or is it merely trading on the education world's most prestigious brandname?
View ArticleForget Kasich's Jab At Trump: Every Serious Nation Shuns Illegals, Even...
John Kasich's put-down of Donald Trump over immigration policy was good television but bad policy.
View ArticleGlobalism Disillusion: Douglas MacArthur's Errors In Post-Defeat Japan
American foreign policy has long been predicated on the idea that the world is converging to American values. It is an idea that got its start in the highly misleading circumstances of post-surrender...
View ArticleIt Is Japan, Not The U.S., That Leads In Serious Technology, Says Top Reagan...
Who leads in advanced technology? The answer depends on what you mean by advanced technology. The Japanese definition is a much more telling one than that of the American press, argues a former top...
View ArticleWhy Are Web Login Security Procedures So #$*&!% Dumb And Obnoxious?
The geeks who design our websites talk a lot about user friendliness, but they often let exaggerated security concerns get in the way of commonsense.
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Winning: The Strange Case of America's Russian-Made Rocket Engines
Donald Trump may ruffle a lot of feathers but the central message of his campaign is sound. That's why he is winning.
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Winning/Article 2 Of A Series: The Need To Fix America's...
America's crumbling airports are undermining its competitiveness, and that is a winning issue for the Trump campaign.
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Winning: He Lands His Best Punch Yet As 'Weak' Jeb Bush Unwisely...
In a devastating exchange last night about Boeing's relations with China, Trump not only called Jeb Bush weak but made him look weak.
View ArticleMichael Bloomberg Has An Achilles Heel And It Is Not Guns Or Age But China
Michael Bloomberg ticks most of the boxes but his uncritical support of America's disastrously dysfunctional trade relationship with China will come back to haunt him.
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Winning: He's Channeling Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali
Donald Trump and Muhammad Ali may not see eye to eye on Muslim immigration, but Trump's publicity tactics in 2016 and Muhammad Ali's in 1964 look rather similar.
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Winning: The Hypocrisy -- And Disaster -- Of American Trade Policy
Before Trump, foreign barriers to American exports were a story the American press rarely mentioned -- and Washington pretended not to see.
View ArticleChina Rubs West's Nose In It Over Dog Meat Brutality And Breed-Name Chauvinism
China is notorious for eating dog-meat. It is also notorious for the skill with which it separates Westerners from their ethics. Is this why the world dog federation has decreed that the 2019 World Dog...
View ArticleEven Martians Know What The Press Won't Say: Disastrous China Trade Policy...
New Hampshire has lost a bigger share of its jobs to China than any other state. That's the one thread that binds the Trump and Sanders victories.
View ArticleTrump: Why Pope Francis's Intervention Is So Counterproductive
Donald Trump has been criticized for speaking before he thinks. That means he has at least one thing in common with Pope Francis.
View ArticleAfter South Carolina, Here's Why Donald Trump Will Be America's Next President
Jeb Bush has dropped out of the Presidential race and other Republican laggards will soon follow. This opens the chance for Donald Trump to get beyond soundbites on his key issues, trade and...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday Post-Mortem: If Hillary Thinks America Is Still Great, She...
In her post-Super Tuesday victory speech, Hillary Clinton asserted that America is still great. That's what Wall Street -- and Wall Street's propagandists in the American press -- want us to believe....
View ArticleFor God's Sake Go, Marco Rubio. Your Rhetoric Will Be Remembered As A...
In indulging in low-blow comments about Donald Trump's anatomy, Marco Rubio tried to out-Trump Trump. Instead he has ended up spectacularly validating Trump's definition of him as a lightweight.
View ArticleAfter Charlie Hebdo, An Acute "PR Dilemma" For Big Oil
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Big Oil is caught on the horns of a dilemma: to move its offshore rigs efficiently, it must pay homage to a Nazi war criminal.
View ArticleBig Oil -- Finally -- Stares Down An Insult To Holocaust Victims
Good sometimes prevails over evil.
View ArticleWhy The Real Basket Case Is Not Japan But A Place Closer To Home
Is Japan's situation "frightening" or are Western observers, as usual, misreading the tea leaves?
View ArticleMBAs Are Part Of The Problem, Not The Solution
A perceptive Martian might assume that those nations with the best business schools would also boast the best economic performance. A closer examination of Planet Earth, however, would require him to...
View ArticleGotcha! U.S. Corporations In China's Net
Welcome to the real new world order in which China selectively enforces its bizarre anti-trust laws to keep U.S corporations off balance.
View ArticleWhy Barbaric 'Jihadi John' Comes From London, Not Tokyo Or Seoul
The man behind the ISIS mask has been identified. So have the slights that seem to have propelled him into a life of infamy.
View ArticleIs This The Most Successful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of?
Probably not one in a hundred executives in Silicon Valley has ever heard of this super-successful East Asian tech company. That company has no plans to boost its name recognition.
View ArticleHas Globalism Passed Its Sell-By Date? Yes, Says This Unstoppable British...
The British electoral system has been a cosy duopoly for more than eighty years. Love him or hate him, Nigel Farage now threatens to take a machete to it.
View ArticleWhy British Prime Minister Cameron Is Stiffing Obama To Woo Beijing
The Financial Times has a good story this morning on how British Prime Minister David Cameron has defied Barack Obama on China policy -- but the paper fails to note Cameron's likely motive: the United...
View ArticleWith Foreigners Questioning The Wall Street Boom, The Dollar Stares Into An...
The dollar has enjoyed a spectacular Indian summer in recent years. But suddenly now, with the fracking boom a fading memory, the dollar has nowhere to go but down.
View ArticleHas Anyone Done More To Undermine Free Markets Than Lee Kuan Yew?
Far from being a poster boy for free markets, Lee Kuan Yew helped pioneer a new system of authoritarian enterprise that Anglo-American markets cannot compete with.
View ArticleWhere It Counts, 'Basket-Case Japan' Is Beating The Pants Off The United States
Japan likes to be underestimated. That way it gets a free pass on opening up its markets to foreign trade.
View ArticleThree Reasons Why John Kerry's Iran Deal Will Not Sink Oil Prices
Oil markets took fright at Thursday's news of major progress in the Obama administration's talks with Iran. In reality, thanks to likely future increases in demand in China and India, and far-sighted...
View ArticleRoyal Dutch Shell Deal Is More Evidence Of Corporate America's Lost Bragging...
Globalism was supposed to offer American corporations unprecedented opportunities to expand their reach. It has not worked out that way.
View ArticleIf Gay MarriageIs So Great, Why Is It Shunned In East Asia?
Same-sex marriage had made rapid progress almost everywhere -- but East Asia has been an exception.
View ArticleDissing Comfort Women And Other War Victims, Boehner Panders To Japan's Most...
The American political system runs on money. Hence the fact that American politicians increasingly pander to even the most toxic foreign leaders.
View ArticleApology Or Not, Japanese Leader's Address To Congress Next Week Will Be A...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been invited to address Congress. There is more to this than meets the eye.
View ArticleWhat Scotland's Insurrection Can Tell Us About America's Worst Economic Mistake
Rarely has a British general election looked so unpredictable. The reason is that the Scottish people have finally understood they have been robbed.
View ArticleThree Big Questions About Bitcoins (Beyond The Obvious)
The biggest mystery about bitcoins is not who the inventor's identity.
View ArticleGrisly Human Trafficking Discoveries May Doom Obama's Troubled Trade Strategy
Malaysia and Thailand notoriously turn a blind eye to human trafficking -- so why is Barack Obama rewarding them with inclusion in the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
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