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...argument against an Obama candidacy is obvious: he is as green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years. He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he has zero military and national-security experience. He's a very smart guy, a quick learner, but no one is that quick. If he runs and makes a fool of himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make...
...campaign's goal is not without precedent. Previous suicide magnets - the Empire State Building, Sydney Harbor Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, and the Mt. Mihara volcano in Japan - have all installed barriers, resulting in dramatic reductions, in some cases to zero, in the number of desperate people who jump...
...virtually no one was interested. Today, investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top-tier corporate bonds are shunned. That should be telling us something. What is it? In the last few years, as the central banks of Japan, the U.S. and Europe took real financing costs to zero, or indeed lower, extraordinary amounts of debt-financed investment took place. Much of this investment is surely sound. Some of it just as surely is not. As the global credit cycle tightens, some of the more marginal investments will quickly become unsustainable. If at that point, central bankers were...
...entail: They deprive private property owners of control over their own assets—calling them “public” smoking bans is quite a misnomer. Forget antiquated notions of private property and tolerance—rabid left-wing activists happily march around under “zero tolerance” banners, proudly advocating complete intolerance of a victim-less crime...
...Seif al Islam is anxious to end speculation that he'll get his own chance to lead Libya some day. He rules out succeeding his father "100 percent," saying his goal is limited to encouraging a civil society as part of Libya's democratization process. No interest at all? "Zero," he replies...