Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.