Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: America needs reform and restructuring. The tax code is a corrupt mess. The US ranks third in global competitiveness, 12th in overall infrastructure, 24th in the quality of its electricity supply, and 101st in mobile telephone subscriptions.The average age of the US’s 84,000 dams is 52
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Lee Kuan Yew said America will remain the world’s dominant power in the 21st century only if it is the dominant Pacific power. Global stability will be shaped by how the US handles China. Graham Allison at Harvard said that since 1500, war resulted
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Kenneth Pollock says Iran’s foreign policy has been rational and prudent over the years. China has less than 5% of the vote in the World Bank and less than 4% of the vote at the IMF. Larry Summers said: The US has lost its role
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: Chris Rupkey at MUFG Union Bank says consumers have emerged from the winter blues and if they spend anywhere as great as they feel, the economy will roar over the next few months. Rupkey and others have been expecting a roaring economy for several years but are
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Continued sanctions are highly unlikely to halt Iran’s nuclear program, which has expanded under for two decades under sanctions – from below 200 centrifuges in 2003 to 19,000 today. The US would effectively have to go to war with Iran to destroy its nuclear
READ MORE... →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
READ MORE... →Fareed Zakaria said: The greatest vulnerability for Israel is its legal jurisdiction over 4.5 million Arabs who have neither a state nor a vote – a situation that cannot last in a democratic society. The Stockholm IPRI says Israel’s defense budget is larger than that of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said the NSF reports the US share of global R&D at 30%, down from 37% in 2001. China % of GDP spent on R&D is on track to surpass the US in just a few years. Charles Bolden at NASA said a multi-planet species can survive in perpetuity;
READ MORE... →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
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Business schools are reporting strong markets for graduating students in full-time jobs. Barbara Hewitt at Wharton said only 4.2% of last year’s graduating class of seniors were still seeking employment 4 to 6 months after graduation, among their lowest percentages in the last 20 years, while 2015’s figure
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