Mitt Romney “right talent” to Czar Health Care

As I see it, there are three principal requirements for the job. The first is experience in management, business, and organization: maybe someone who’s worked as a management consultant, an entrepreneur, and an executive in both the public and private sectors. The second is the ability and capacity to commit: someone who isn’t likely to…

American Biotech Industry in Shock

PERSONALIZED medicine has proved an elusive dream. Since the decoding of the human genome, biotechnology companies have claimed that by matching a person’s genetic make-up with specialised treatments, they can tailor drugs to maximise benefits and minimise side effects. Alas, researchers have discovered that the link between a given person’s genetic make-up and specific diseases…

The Jackals already circling Putin

The Putin Parody Andrei Piontkovsky The history of authoritarian rule in Russia displays a certain depressing regularity. Such regimes rarely perish from external shocks or position pressure. As a rule, they die unexpectedly from some internal disease – from irresistible existential disgust at themselves, from their own exhaustion. Czarist rule withstood many harsh tests during…

Trading desk 3.29.2010

Is China the Next Global Resource Glutton? UPDATE:  Gold has continued its appreciation today. Overall commodities and emerging markets were the main driver. The key chart today is copper which broke out to make new highs on the year (and since August 2008 for that matter). Indicator suggests CHINA RISK RISING Given what we have…

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Muslim women could be the key to ending extremism

Over the past decade, Western media have repeatedly portrayed images of Muslim women as victims. We have read about the Taliban publicly beating young women who laugh in the street; we have read about the targeted killings of professional Iraqi women – doctors, journalists, lawyers – who represent an opposing view to an extremist agenda….