Deeply embedded in the core of the American economy are automobile economics and automobile culture. Showroom visits by potential buyers are down 50% this month as compared to last year, and sales of new automobiles by General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and other dealers are down by 33% on average when compared to last year.
Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of last Friday’s presidential debate was that neither candidate proposed a bold, new way of thinking about foreign policy that cuts through the crisis-driven, incremental approach that has characterized the United States’ national security posture since the end of the Cold War.
I wonder what George W. Bush really, really, really thinks about Sarah Palin. . .I can’t imagine Laura Bush thinking much of her, but that’s my own speculation.
Mike Bloomberg has served city and country well over the past seven years.
The question of how and when the United States should promote democracy abroad rose to the forefront of our nation’s foreign policy discourse following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and reached its apex in President Bush’s Second Inaugural Address.
Tonight, I spoke at a forum in Vienna at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. The topic I was speaking on was “Electing the American President: Do New Media, Blogs and the Internet Make any Difference?” About 200 people attended.
George W. Bush will address the country (and world) at 7:45 am EST Tuesday morning. Global markets are falling in the aftermath of the single largest point drop of the New York stock exchange in American history. There is no bail-out deal for the American financial sector, and global credit markets are choking up.
Sunday in the Los Angeles Times, an excerpt ran of a new book that was partly sponsored by the New America Foundation/American Strategy Progam titled America and the World: Conversations on the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy with Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and David Ignatius.
Well, you’ll get more than Mozart — but if you love music and want to visit one of the funkiest cafes and restaurants — visit Santo Spirito in Vienna.
I spoke to former World Bank Chief Economist and Initiative for Policy Dialogue President Joseph Stiglitz on Saturday by phone, and he shared with me many of the same points that he does in this excellent article, “A Better Bailout,” on how we needed to structure a financial markets action plan.
