BOOK REVIEW HOME CV PUBLICATIONS CLASSES PAK HOUSE OF DEBT Curriculum Vitae Atif Mian is Theodore A. Wells ’29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School. He holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics with Computer Science […]
Nov 23,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kelli Wells Understanding the future of work is difficult, if not impossible. According to the MacArthur Foundation, 65 per cent of today’s schoolchildren will eventually be employed in jobs that do not exist yet. As technology, globalisation and many other factors continue to redefine work, […]
Source: Religion News Service By Tahir Nasser is a 27-year-old physician and a regular contributor and commentator in British media. Find him on Twitter: @TahirNasser “Why did America vote for Donald Trump?” is […]
REBUILDING BOOM NOV 12, 2016 – swissinfo.ch The average age of the around 84,000 dams in the US is 52 years (Keystone) Companies like Sika and LafargeHolcim want to be a part of US President Elect Donald Trump’s plans to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges, tunnels and airports infrastructure. While the […]
Democrats Pramila Jayapal, Kamala Harris, Ro Khanna, Raja Krishnamoorthi win seats NEWLEY PURNELL Nov 9, 2016 7:16 pm IST Wall Street Journal 4 COMMENTS Several Democratic Indian-origin candidates have clinched victory in U.S. elections, as Republican candidate Donald Trump swept to power in the presidential poll. Indian-born Democrat Pramila Jayapal, who […]
Source: Huffingotn Post By Ben Walsh Business Reporter, The Huffington Post Shortly after the first presidential debate, former Obama adviser David Axelrod said on CNN that the commander in chief “can send armies marching and markets tumbling.” Investors, it seems, are being reminded of this as polls show Hillary Clinton’s numbers […]
Published: Oct 5, 2016 DAVID WALDMAN WASHINGTON — Technology will fuel an increase of up to 3% in the gross domestic product of every country over the next decade, the executive chairman of Cisco Systems said at an International Monetary Fund panel Wednesday. “If you look at what is […]
Economist: “THE wall between state and church”, Justice Hugo Black wrote in Everson v Board of Education, a case from 1947, “must be kept high and impregnable”. Justice Black was […]
LINDA HEARD | Published — Monday 3 October 2016 Saudi Arabia’s response to legislation permitting the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Kingdom for compensation, which US President Barack Obama has characterized as setting a “dangerous precedent”, has been diplomatically low-key. “The erosion of sovereign immunity will have a […]
Oct 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – SIMON JOHNSON Donald Trump has finally put out a detailed economic plan. Authored by Peter Navarro (an economist at the University of California-Irvine) and Wilbur Ross (an investor), the plan claims that a president Trump would boost growth and reduce the national debt. But […]
Sep 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Devesh Kapur World Bank President Jim Yong Kim’s nomination for a second term is inexorably moving forward with a lack of transparency that has become all too typical. Many observers are once again gnashing their teeth at the United States’ continued monopoly over the top […]
“Give me control over a nations currency, and I care not who makes its laws” – Baron M.A. Rothschild Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan Albania: Bank of Albania Algeria: Bank of Algeria Argentina: Central Bank of Argentina Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia Aruba: Central Bank of Aruba Australia: Reserve […]
By Steven Sahiounie Global Research, August 19, 2016 The day before September 11, 2001 was like any normal day in New York City. September 10, 2001 was unaware of the earthshaking events which would happen the next day. Similarly, one might think the day before the violence broke out […]
By Garikai Chengu Global Research, August 27, 2016 Incisive article originally published by GR in September 2014. Terror attacks or mass shootings allegedly perpetrated by the ISIS, the question that should be asked: who are the State sponsors of Al Qaeda and the ISIS? (M.Ch. GR Editor). Much like […]
COLUMNS Rethinking Robin Hood Angus Deaton | Published — Thursday 23 June 2016 International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: Take from the rich and give to the poor. National development agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs currently transfer more than $135 billion a year from rich […]
There’s another retailer trying to cater to Muslim customers via Ramadan-focused threads — this time, it’s a fast-fashion name. Mango is debuting a collection focused around the Muslim holy month, […]
EMPLOYMENT 4.0 The mutation of the workforce has already begun By Duc-Quang Nguyen and Samuel Jaberg MAY 20, 2016 – 11:00 (swissinfo.ch) The fourth industrial revolution – the digitalisation of the economy – is set to radically transform or render obsolete half of all jobs in industrialised countries. As a […]
Source: Time If she gets elected president next November Hillary Clinton says she has found a role for her husband, former president Bill Clinton, in her future administration, should she be […]
Family trusts US tax havens – the new Switzerland? By Kara Scannell and Vanessa Houlder May 9, 2016 – 09:14 What would the former US presidents have made of South Dakota’s status as a booming tax haven? (Keystone) After pursuing Swiss banks for helping Americans hide money, the United States […]
May 09,2016 – Jordan Times – Yanis Varoufakis The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows and prevents systemic contagion. That, of course, was the goal of the original Bretton Woods system. But such a system today would […]