Women

Paul Summerville • February 19, 2012

Commentary on the rise of unwed mothers, Chinese aristocracy, big pay days in financial firms, and the cost of a bailout.

In the United States now more than 50% of children are born to unmarried women under the age of 30. (ed’s note – it is 41% for women over 30).

New York Times -- For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage
It used to be called illegitimacy.

Paul Summerville • December 9, 2011

Commentary on politics intruding on the health of women, bring pig to power, numbers that hide shame, the word game, Euro-elites, risky European banks, and a Canadian income challenge.

In the ‘fiction matters more than science’ category America still can’t accept birth control.

Paul Summerville • November 10, 2011

Commentary on why you better beware financial market planners, measuring inequality, the cost of bank lending discrimination, the dangers in being ‘fair’, wrong headed economics, and men without work.

Beware. 

Please understand the risks that will impact your lifestyle.

Paul Summerville • October 28, 2011

Commentary on life and the single woman, crony capitalism, Portugal’s turn, turning excess into access, and one of the greatest baseball games ever.

The social implications of the increase in the number of single women. (ed’s note – one assumes for men too).

Paul Summerville • October 18, 2011

A two part podcast on the greatest, relatively bloodless, revolution ever, the emancipation of women, and how important it is to best class justice, education, health, community, and particularly, economic outcomes.

Paul Summerville • October 9, 2011

Articles on the structural impasse facing the global economy, the results of the UK bank bailout three years on, taking the protestors seriously, an alternative view of the threat to America from its fiscal position, the drama around Putin’s plan to govern until he is 72, and political cleavage.

Paul Summerville • October 7, 2011

Articles on the three women that shared the Nobel Peace Prize, what is behind income inequality in the United States, can Europe get ‘TARPed’, let Greece default, the coming stampede into corporate bonds, the messy world according to Mervyn King, Israel makes its case, and the uses and abuses of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’.

llen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakul Karman share the prize.

Paul Summerville • September 1, 2011

Articles on a 9/11 what if, another save the Euro plan, reflecting on some of Imperial Britain’s children, underpaying women, the rocky path still ahead, more on Rick Perry, how economists aren’t helping, how voters are bankrupting democracy, explaining falling rates of crime, careful what you say about Thailand’s King, the next saviour, and whose next for the NDP/Liberals?

Only if ….

Paul Summerville • June 29, 2011

Articles on China’s naval ambitions, how a Capone thug got a strangle hold on Hollywood, the 14 key ideas shaping the high income world, Malcolm Gladwell on other minds, European crossroad, Afghan women and the Taliban, more Ignatieff, how old will Britain be in 2041, Greece’s inevitable restructuring, how a single moment can change a life, and start up Asia.

China’s naval plans.