Dear Friends:
I would like to share with you some of the comments posted
by myself in the WSJ Journal Community about important headlines of the Wall
Street Journal from July 23 to July 30.
The comments are about politics, economy, business, social
issues, technology and other subjects in the United
States, Europe and
the world.
As you can see for the RECOMMENDATIONS, the majority of
these comments generated a good reaction of other members of the Journal
Community.
Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
July 30, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/07/23
- 2015/07/30
MY COMMENT: When we read about the “complicated ties”
with UBS AG and other top international companies, we see that Hillary Clinton
likes to play with “big fishes”.
Of course, this kind
of “fishes” – UBS AG, Goldman Sachs, Oracle, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank,
Ericsson, Barclay Capital…- will not play with Hillary for “charity” feelings.
2 Recommendations 07/30/2015 08:19:06 AM
MY COMMENT: The reading of this story about the donations
that Donald Trump made in the past to Democrats and Republicans confirm who he
is.
According to the
list, Mr. Trump made donations to Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Ted Kennedy,
George W. Bush and others from both parties.
Really, Donald Trump
is not Republican neither Democrat. He is a businessman and probably, his
current presidential campaign is a new business. 1 Recommendation 07/30/2015 06:20:52 AM
MY COMMENT: The Chinese competition is like a
machine to flatten the ground. However, LG is a fighter with experience in the
battlefield of the technology industry. It grew in the international market
pushing others out of the field.
If the South Korean
company rethinks its strategies, reorganizing its business according the
current demand of the customers, it will find the way to confront the Chinese. 1
Recommendations 07/29/2015 03:11:06 PM
MY COMMENT: The Chinese are making businesses with Japan since long time, but the relationships
between both countries are very bad.
With this frame, it
is possible to expect that the Chinese World War II Parade will use to
discredit Japan.
Independently of
all, U.S. is not Japan and in the diplomatic way, it has to balance all the pros and cons of
the Chinese invitation for the parade. 1 Recommendation 07/29/2015 02:23:06 PM
MY COMMENT: The news about the death of Mullah Mohammad
Omar is confusing.
Some sources say he
died 2 years ago. Others try to guess about who will lead the Taliban group
from now.
If the Mullah Omar died 2 years ago and the Taliban movement continues active, it is because somebody else is leading the militants during all this period. 1 Recommendation 07/29/2015 02:04:49 PM
MY COMMENT: This story says that Alibaba plans $1 billion
investment in cloud-computing to challenge Amazon.com.
Alibaba is an
aggressive Chinese player of the e-commerce and Internet sectors that grew a
lot in the last few years due his initiative.
From the other side,
Amazon is also an aggressive company of the e-commerce and Internet sectors.
The difference
between both companies is the strong foundation that Amazon has built during
more than a decade and its long experience as provider and user of technology.
The challenge of Alibaba will not easy. 1 Recommendation 07/29/2015 11:30:26 AM
MY COMMENT: In his visit to Africa, President Obama talked of improving the
economic ties with U.S.
Probably, this
initiative came late. During the last few years, the Chinese entered in a very
strong way in the African market with different kind of investments and
exporting big quantities of products.
If we search a
little through Internet, we find that China is No.1 in sales to Kenya and other countries. And the Chinese don’t
ask to the Africans for human rights, gay rights and all the other subjects.
(By the way, the
Kenyan President rebuked President Obama about his suggestion that Kenya has to recognize the gay rights.) 3
Recommendations 07/28/2015 03:06:06 PM
MY COMMENT: The Microsoft’s decision of giving away the
Windows 10 upgrade will help to the migration of the Windows 8 users.
This initiative is an
award to the people who were investing in Microsoft during the last years.
However, it will not
help to the PC makers who were expecting to increase the sales of machines with
the introduction of Windows 10. (Who can upgrade the operating system in his
current computer, will not buy a new computer.) 1 Recommendation 07/28/2015
02:48:49 PM
MY COMMENT: Ford Motor gave good news to the financial
market with its last quarterly financial reports.
The 44% jump in
profit and the strong sales in U.S. mark a new cycle of the car maker with fresh
airs.
About the losses in Europe is not a Ford’s problem. It is a Europe’s problem. The Europeans have a lot of
problems now.
About China, the competition is very hard and its
economy is weak compared with previous periods. 1 Recommendation 07/28/2015 02:40:09 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says that the U.S. Energy firms are
planning to cut payroll.
Always the workers
are the first “fuses” when the economic figures are weak. 1 Recommendation 07/27/2015 03:00:26 PM
MY COMMENT: Putting a price on a human egg doesn’t imply
an effective action against the abuse of the industry of make babies by
artificial methods.
It is probable there
are a lot of “covert” transactions using women of poor countries as part of the
business. 1 Recommendation 07/27/2015 02:36:25 PM
MY COMMENT: We are living in a world of big cynicism
where everybody makes great speeches about freedom and against human
trafficking, but nobody makes actions against the agents of the human
trafficking.
The drama of the
palm-oil migrant workers in Malaysia is another sample of slavery in the current
times.
Are the Malaysian
authorities blind to the corruption and the crime? 2 Recommendations 07/27/2015 02:23:08 PM
MY COMMENT: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are the two
extremes of the current political spectrum for the 2016 presidential election.
Probably, a lot of Americans who don’t believe in the classic politicians will
opt for one or the other.
However, we have to
think a little about the attitude of both candidates. Trump and Sanders
criticize to everybody and they find spots everywhere. But what are the real
solutions they can implement if they are elected presidents? 1 Recommendation 07/27/2015 01:13:31 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says Syrian President admitted his
government has not enough forces to fight against the rebels.
Maybe the speech of
Assad is an indirect call to the Iranians asking for troops and/or Hezbollah
militants.
If this is the case,
it will be easy for the Iranians the deployment of troops in Syria because they are fighting together with the
Shiite militants in Iraq, next door. 07/26/2015 02:27:01 PM
MY COMMENT: The President Obama’s introduction as the
first Kenyan-American president was exciting for the Kenyans, but the American
constituents voted him as an American-American president. 1
Recommendation 07/26/2015 01:50:00 PM
MY COMMENT: Who said Benghazi’s case was closed? In Congress, the Benghazi
Panel continues its investigation and again Ms. Clinton was call to testify.
This will be a difficult
“test” for Hillary in the middle of the presidential campaign. 3
Recommendations 07/25/2015 03:54:45 PM
MY COMMENT: These are the American allies! Turkey attacks the Kurdish militants instead to
focus its attacks on Islamic State.
With this movement, Turkey is complicating more the situation in the
Middle-East and it is damaging the Kurdish front against ISIS. 1 Recommendation 07/25/2015 03:48:37 PM
MY COMMENT: During the last few days, newspapers of the United States, Europe and Australia talk about a series of incidents with
drones. It is evident that the explosive growth of flying drones is creating
problems.
Now, it is time the
authorities define clear rules and create special law enforcement units to put
order in the sky. In other case, the chaos will be huge. 1 Recommendation 07/24/2015 02:27:45 PM
MY COMMENT: After a series of poor financial results,
Amazon came to the main scene with good news.
It posted the
second-quarter 2015 financial results with sales of $23.18 billion and $92
million profit.
And something very
important: the revenues of its unit of cloud services doubled. Amazon is
growing as provider of cloud computing.
A day after the
financial report, the market capitalization of Amazon soared more than $270
billion surpassing Wal-Mart.
In summary, Amazon
is one of the few companies linked with the technology market that walked well
during the last few days. 1 Recommendation 07/24/2015 02:15:58 PM
MY COMMENT: It is truth that Donald Trump is using
his own money for the campaign, but after his aggressive statements against
John McCain and others, the media directly or indirectly start to help him. 1
Recommendations 07/24/2015 01:58:34 PM
On The
Calamity of Obama’s Iran Deal: (written by Mitt Romney)
Now, Mitt Romney is
taking revenge on his old rival. His arguments against President Obama are
hard. He named the Iran deal as the “calamity”. 3 Recommendations
07/23/2015 03:20:52 PM
MY COMMENT: Surely, Financial Times in the Japanese hands
will have strong influence of Japanese brains.
Since long time, the
Japanese newspaper Nikkei was showing a lot of interest to extend its business
across the west part of the globe. 1 Recommendation 07/23/2015 03:11:01 PM
MY COMMENT: The good times of John Kerry dealing with the
Iranians in European luxury hotels finished.
After his return
home, John Kerry was call immediately for a hearing in Congress. Now, the
Secretary of State will have to protect his face from the punches of the lawmakers.
1 Recommendation 07/23/2015 03:02:35 PM
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SOURCES:
1) External Sources: Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
Tweeter and PBS NewsHour.
2) Own Sources: My own research for previous publishing
projects like TTT of Comlab Corp, Spanish English Club online and others.
Website: http://world-rethink.blogspot.de/
