Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 03-29-15

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The pattern of Yemen’s descent into chaos is likely to repeat, possibly in more significant countries like Egypt. That pattern is repressive, secular regimes backed by the West become illegitimate, become more repressive to survive, and whose opposition becomes more extreme, religious and violent. Learning

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 03-08-15

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Netanyahu’s alternative to the Iran nuclear deal is divorced from reality – his predictions about Iran’s nuclear threat have been wrong for 25 years. Without a nuclear deal, Iran in 10 years will have 50,000 centrifuges, massive stocks of highly enriched uranium, new facilities, thousands of

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Zanny Minton Beddoes – Charlie Rose 02-10-15

Salient to Investors: Zanny Minton Beddoes at The Economist said: The economy’s fundamental drivers, particularly rapid technological change, means that the rewards disproportionately go to the top. The latest IMF research suggests that you get stronger and more lasting economic growth in societies that are more equal. The last time

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 01-18-15

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The theory that “we fight them there so we don’t have to fight them here” is still wrong and would commit the US to a fool’s errand for decades. Cherif Kouachi, one of the Paris terrorists, testified that it was American intervention in the Middle East

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 12-21-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Movie studios and theaters have made a mistake in not affirming freedom of expression regarding the movie “The Interview”. In the late 1930s, the UK wanted to ban distribution of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”  to appease Nazi Germany. Obama’s strategy of pressuring Russia and making

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 11-02-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Tunisia is more developed, more urban, more literate, and more globalized than Egypt, and has a more diverse civil society, stronger labor unions, civic associations, professional groups. Tunisia’s relative success suggests there is nothing inherent in Islam or Arab society that makes it impossible

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