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Paul Summerville • mai 16, 2012

Commentary on China's real estate meltdown, India’s corrupt economy, Armenia’s heavy legacies, reforming British welfare, art and life, Gaga and Indonesia, and Mulclair’s cracks.

China breaking.

Paul Summerville • mai 15, 2012

Commentary on a really big controversy, joy of small cities, really radical, long bonds, realism and US foreign policy, and when you don’t like the scientific results cut the funding off.

That breastfeeding problem (and female anatomy in general).

Paul Summerville • mai 14, 2012

Commentary on Grexit, frequent flying, evolution takes time, man on the run, on literature, and Liberals.

Go already.


Financial Times -- Eurozone: If Greece goes ...
With an exit looking possible, policymakers and investors are shifting focus to the consequences.

 

Paul Summerville • mai 13, 2012

Commentary on restructuring in the North American automotive industry, how Wall Street and Washington conspired to kill financial regulation, our topsy turvy world, personal responsibility, fighting front line economic battles, and the Prime Minister’s full frontal assault on the Trudeau legacy.

The authors of this excellent study conclude that the government bailout of the North American automotive industry made the industry more competitive because more players survived.

Paul Summerville • mai 12, 2012

Commentary on India’s Achilles heel, thank goodness for single mothers, growing Euro fall out, risk-off rises, and the dangerous Canadian real estate market.

India’s self-inflicted mediocrity.

Economist -- One dishonourable step backwards
HOW should one judge the lot of women in India, a country that is in many ways progressive, modern, tolerant and yet by turns repressive and hostile?

 

Paul Summerville • mai 11, 2012

Commentary on Greece exiting the Euro, economic smoke and mirrors, taxing churches, and shifting choice in Canada`s immigration strategy.

Greixt.

Financial Times -- Greece is falling out of Europe
The people of Greece have rejected austerity.

Related.

Paul Summerville • mai 10, 2012

Commentary on marriage, inequality and the recession, how the Mafia hurts the economy, Chinese choices, and Dutch nonsense.

What it is anyway?

 

New York Review of Books -- The Myth About Marriage
Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage?

Related.

Paul Summerville • mai 9, 2012

Today's image is a Japanese rice field designed to look like Hokusai's famous wave! Thanks to Robin of Victoria.

Commentary on the geography debate, having it both ways, the prison guru dies but his terrible legacy remains, and the dangerous Tom Mulclair.

Is it about geography or something else?

Paul Summerville • mai 7, 2012

Commentary on the global economy, no more German-French love, killing Bin Laden, and holding on to the middle class.

Fixing the global economy.

Financial Times -- A new way of thinking about the global machine
It is useful to think of the global economy as one dynamic and complex machine.

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Paul Summerville • mai 6, 2012

Commentary on the death of the middle class, on-line university, rule of law in China, unlocking creativity, and the case for 60 million Canadians by 2050.

“The competition is maddening!”

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Ultimately, the most successful societies find the balance between the twin virtues of inequality of outcomes and equality of opportunity.

Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise sustainable economic growth and fund best in class instruments of social justice.

Public policy should never be designed to decrease inequality but should always be designed to increase equality.

Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).

Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.

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