Neoconomy

India just elected Sonia Gandhi in a surprise victory. Neoconomy – It sounds like a recipe for the kind of social unrest that can make an economy stagger, stagnate, or worse. A political backlash would seem almost inevitable. And something worse – like a riotous manifestation of anticapitalist sentiment – would become a real possibility …

The world is not looking great right now

The rabbit hole goes pretty deep – Lawmakers Are Stunned By New Images of Abuse More than a year after Saddam’s ouster, no proof of his ties to al-Qaida or September 11 has materialized. Some skeptics suggest that the avenging rhetoric and imagery instead may have fostered an atmosphere conducive to the maltreatment of Iraqis …