Wednesday, 20 January 2010

US Does Not Have Capitalism Now: Stiglitz
Layers of money managers that don’t bear the brunt of losses but walk away with big payouts when things go well have turned the US economy to a type of “ersatz capitalism,” Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate, told CNBC Tuesday.

• Government Is Too Big to Succeed 


Media and Political Hysteria Over Yemen Hides a Deeper Strategic Matrix of Long-Term Importance
US and Western European political leaders have begun to focus on Yemen as a source of projected instability and as a haven for jihadist terrorism against the West.