Fareed Zakaria GPS – CNN 05-24-15

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Britain, which created the world we live in, has become parochial and has essentially resigned as a global power: a tragedy for us all. The Royal United Services Institute predicts that the British army could shrink to 50,000, smaller than at any point since the 1770s

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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 12-07-14

Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The Department of Defense cost overruns on one weapons system are more than the total defense budget of Britain and France put together. The US spends more on defense than the next 8 nations put together including China and Russia.  Since 9/11 America has been

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Three Pie Charts That Prove You Shouldn’t Slack Off in College – BloombergBusinessWeek 09-02-14

Salient to Investors: Richard Arum at NYU and Josipa Roksa of University of Virginia found: Students who did as little as possible during college continued to drift after graduation. Many college students took easy courses, regarded themselves as privileged customers, socialized heavily, and came away with little to show for

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