Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Unlike in the rest of Europe or much of the world, the overall picture in Germany is quite rosy with unemployment is at a two-decade low, the DAX at record highs, economic sentiment at a 3-year high, and growth returning. Merkel has taken important
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The US has put its credibility on the line and will find it extremely difficult to keep its actions limited in a volatile situation. Ousting Assad would almost certainly lead to chaos and the ethnic cleansing of the Alawite sect and perhaps of other
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria writes: The World Bank says that in 1981, nearly half of all world citizens were impoverished versus less than a fifth today. However 95 percent of the total global decline has to do with China, whose poor declined by nearly 680 million people in the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The distinctive feature of the American system is how undemocratic it is. Three co-equal branches of government and the one with the final say on many issues is composed of 9 unelected men and women. The Senate, the most unrepresentative upper house in the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Both the American left and right are concerned about the declining mobility of the American dream. Countries that invest more heavily in children’s health care, nutrition, and education, well-being more generally end up with a much stronger ladder of opportunity and access than America.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Author Chrystia Freeland said Putin is playing the classic authoritarian leader’s playbook and is chiefly concerned with what is good for Putin, not Russia. Julia Ioffe at The New Republic said on the one hand Russia wants to be part of the West and seen as an
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Author Mark Leibovich writes: Washington works extremely well for its most important citizens, the lobbyists. Money has trumped power as the ultimate currency. Atlantic magazine reported in 1974 that only 3 percent of retiring members of Congress became lobbyists. Today, that number is 42 percent for members of the
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: For 340 consecutive months, the Earth has been warmer than historic averages. 28 years ago, the Arctic was covered by ice throughout the year as it had been for centuries, but every summer two-thirds of it melts to water. In 2012, 46 commercial ships were allowed
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Unlike most developing nations, China spends little on subsidizing current consumption but spends massively on export-free zones, highways, rail systems and airports. No developing democracy has been able to ignore short-term political pressures and execute a disciplined growth strategy with such success. China’s growth
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Pakistan is full of Islamic radicals, nuclear weapons, ambitious generals, and corrupt politicians but things are changing. For the first time in its history, an elected government completed a 5-year term, giving way to a new set of democratically elected leaders. Pakistan’s demographics are vibrant. A third
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