Europe

Paul Summerville • février 28, 2013

Commentary on Syria’s terrible disintegration, helping out, the Turks and Kurds inch toward peace, saving the GOP, Italy’s bad election, the global economy in 2050, Paris in 1900, and the change in work.

Syria collapses.

Economist -- The country formerly known as Syria
As sectarian divisions deepen, the war is changing the country beyond recognition.

Tippy toeing in.

Paul Summerville • février 26, 2013

Commentary on Japan’s population decline, worthless coins, heading towards legal cannabis, poverty before capitalism, sentimental equity investing, and political reform in Canada.

Some strange thoughts.

Paul Summerville • février 10, 2013

Commentary on declining fertility rates in the Muslim world, tired and huddled masses, cap and trade in New England, less living on $1.25 a day, the female board member European bottom line, the revenge of the deer, and what does fewer fires mean for firefighters.

Poor and old.

Paul Summerville • janvier 29, 2013

Commentary on the 0D30 controversy, European amnesia, the liberal Obama, why Joe and Hillary won’t run, hungry dragon, lazy mob, Europe’s deadly demographics, and the future battle over 3D manufacturing.

When hiding behind fiction is wrong. (ed’s note – spoiler alert, the last part of the movie depicting bin Laden’s assassination was just as fascinating as the pursuit and decision to launch the mission).

Paul Summerville • janvier 14, 2013

Commentary on the truth behind the Cuban Missile Crisis, post-50 retirement horror, American demographics, is the Euro crisis over, abortion access imperiled, squeezed centre, that inflation genie, and the duty to consult.

Dark cloud over Camelot or the Cuban obsession.

Atlantic -- The Real Cuban Missile Crisis
Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.

The age 50 Rubicon.

Paul Summerville • décembre 29, 2012

Commentary on forecasts, and the world women live in -- gang rape in India (on a public bus) and interviewing a female Premier (on a Vancouver Island radio station).

More about forecasts.

Financial Times -- An insatiable desire to peer into the future
The wonderful thing about forecasts is that they all sound very profound.

Related.

Paul Summerville • décembre 14, 2012

Commentary on climate change and melting poles, the history of global GDP in one chart, the Fed’s new framework, survival Euro, why the minimum wage is good, and squaring the foreign investment circle in Canada.

Paul Summerville • décembre 12, 2012

Commentary on lessons from Japan, lessons from Europe, an older world, which way the Shanghai index, messaging is why gay marriage won, Google taxes, and the opening that Harper's muddled economic policy has given the Liberal Party.

What Europe can learn from Japan …

Financial Times -- Japan should scare the Eurozone
Europe risks replicating Japan’s lost decades

Paul Summerville • décembre 9, 2012

Commentary on life after massive weight loss, gay marriage in the United States, finally good news for newspapers, Europe’s austerity kills the future, unequal future, freedom of speech, and those F35s.

I have a dear friend who is morbidly obese and I haven’t had the courage to say “lose that weight”. Julia Kozerski documented her decision to cut her weight in half and the trauma of dealing with her new body.

Paul Summerville • novembre 16, 2012

Commentary on the challenge facing China’s 7 new wise men, Turkey’s wine industry and Islam, comparing the Petraeus affair with Eisenhower’s, Europe’s double dip, and managing the new Liberal supporter category.

A reminder that China’s new leadership faces extraordinary challenges largely of China’s own making; the easy part is over.

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Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
 
When too few get too much everybody ends up with less.
 
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society as a whole that are unintended but wonderful?
 
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways.
 
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
 
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
 
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
 
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
 
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
 
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
 
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
 
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
 
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
 
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
 
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
 
Find your voice and don't be the echo of somebody else.