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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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 10-26-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Canada has more immigrants, more foreign-born citizens than the US. Since 1990, mortality rates of children under five have been cut in half. Most books on entrepreneurship are useless. The top 5 countries that account for half of the under-5 deaths are India, Nigeria,

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 10-19-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Obama’s Syria policy is destined for failure and almost certain to produce chaos and unintended consequences. Joshua Landis at Syria Comment estimates that non-jihadi groups collectively control only about 5% of Syria. The underlying reason for the violence in Iraq and Syria is a Sunni

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 10-12-14

Salient to Investors: The Economist said that: During the first 6 years of Reagan’s presidency, the US economy grew 22% and the median household income grew by 6%. During the first 6 years of Clinton’s presidency, the US economy grew 24% and the median household income increased 11%. During the first 6 years

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 09-28-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Destroying ISIS will take collaboration with Iran (which has far more influence than the US with the Iraqi government) which would  have beneficial effects from Iraq to Syria to Afghanistan. While air strikes are usually successful, what usually follows is messy. The US cannot both destroy ISIS

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 09-07-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Islamic terror is not the isolated behavior of a handful of nihilists but a broader culture that has been complicit in it or at least unwilling to combat it. Zawahiri’s effort to recruit Indian Muslims will fail. The Arab world produces fanaticism and jihad

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Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 08-31-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Defeating ISIS would require a large and sustained strategic effort from the US but without significant numbers of US ground troops. ISIS videos of executions are designed to sow terror in the minds of opponents who when facing ISIS fighters now reportedly flee rather

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