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 7 to July 15.
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 15, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/07/07
- 2015/07/15
MY COMMENT: In short, the nuclear agreement is a victory
for Iran and the “red carpet” to its entrance in the
Atomic Club.
If it violates the
deal, U.S. alone will not able to take an effective action against Iran because it will need the support of Russia and China, something that is not probable.
Today, everyone
smiles like good friends, tomorrow is another day.
After the aggressive
attitude that the Iranian Supreme Leader showed several days ago, from my point
of view, this agreement is humiliatingly. (He offended us. After that, we put
down our head and we sign the document.) 2 Recommendations 07/15/2015 02:13:43 PM
MY COMMENT: Now, in the worst moment of the Greek crisis,
Alexis Tsipras only cares for his personal ego.
He doesn’t assume
the responsibility of the mess that he generated promising golden days to a
country that is in bad shape since before it entered in the European Union and
the euro-zone. 07/15/2015 07:14:43 AM
MY COMMENT: The story says that despite China expected a little less than 7% growth; this
level is lower than the country was pointing.
From my perspective,
if China wants to grow at high steps every quarter
and every year, the government has to improve the levels of education for
everybody everywhere across the country and gives more freedom to the citizens
to deploy private initiatives without the control of corrupt local officials
and the central government. (Till now, in the remote areas of the country, the
poverty is high.)
The totalitarian
regimes help to the countries to grow to the “level” the leaders can maintain
the “brains” under their control.
But the totalitarian
regimes suffocate the initiative of brilliant brains that can generate huge
explosions of the society because they are risky for the survival of the
leaders of the regime. 1 Recommendation 07/15/2015 07:00:18 AM
MY COMMENT: After a nine-year and a three billion-mile
journey, a spacecraft from NASA is close the Pluto’s surface.
Independently of the
results, the NASA efforts are valuable. We have to hope the data confirm the
mission was successful. 4 Recommendations 07/14/2015 03:05:49 PM
MY COMMENT: An agreement without total consensus is a “paper”
more for the dusty folders when the White House changes its titular. 3
Recommendations 07/14/2015 02:43:59 PM
MY COMMENT: This story says the profit of Google in the
quarter that finished some weeks ago was lower than previous expectations due
to a series of expenditures.
Google is a very
active and innovative company. It always is running new projects, but some of
its projects are not money machines. Costs without incomes don’t work well. 1
Recommendation 07/14/2015 02:18:34 PM
MY COMMENT: This story talks about the criticism of Joschka
Fischer over the handling of the Greek crisis.
Joschka Fischer is
not the best person to criticize Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), because he was
the Germany’s foreign minister of the government led by
Chancellor Gerhard Schoeder (SDP) when Greece was accepted in the euro-zone.
Two years ago, when
the first Greek crisis started, in interview for the prestigious Der Spiegel
Magazine, Gerhard Schoeder recognized that in 2001 when he was German
Chancellor, Germany didn’t pay enough attention about the very bad financial
shape of Greece before it received the okay to enter to the euro-zone. Maybe
Joschka Fischer never read the “mea culpa” of Schoeder.
For the “Greens”
like Joschka Fischer always is easy to criticize other politicians generating
bad waves through the media. But in the end, they never offer realistic
solutions for complex problems. 17 Recommendations 07/12/2015 01:32:32 PM
MY COMMENT: Today Paraguay is a poor country. After the war it lost
against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, it never recovered the power it had in the
past.
It is good that in
his trip to Asuncion, Pope Francis remembered this terrible
episode of the History of South America that was a big genocide. Only women,
children and elders survived. 1 Recommendation 07/11/2015 07:50:20 PM
MY COMMENT: Who is the Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to
call the U.S. the “ultimate embodiment of arrogance”?
The Iranians want
the deal but they don’t want to accept the conditions of the negotiators.
Really, the best is
to stop the negotiation. The western countries don’t have to lose their time
dealing with the diplomatic people of the arrogant Iranian supreme leader. 5
Recommendations 07/11/2015 07:27:37 PM
MY COMMENT: When a country – in this case, Greece - wants to live together with other
countries in a community, it has to respect the rules of the community.
The community of
countries has its pros and cons. And Europe as a
community, it is a very complicated case because each European country has a
long history and a lot of traditions with a lot of conflicts among them.
But it is not
possible that now Greece is creating problems to the other members of the EU.
If the Greeks don’t
want to accept the rules of the EU, they have to walk away of this community
assuming all their risks alone. 3 Recommendations 07/11/2015 07:14:39 PM
MY COMMENT: The simple resign of OPM Director Katherine
Archuleta lets an “administrative corpse” that will not fix the big “leak” of
information related to millions of federal employee records hacked.
Irony: In China or North Korea, an official involved in this kind of
negligence goes to jail or is executed… 6 Recommendations 07/10/2015 01:18:54 PM
MY COMMENT: The affair of the OPM’s information hacked is
a huge example of federal government incompetence, but probably, it will be not
the last. 1 Recommendation 07/10/2015 01:32:13 PM
MY COMMENT: The story remarks that Chinese President
Xi Jinping faces a rare backlash due to some economic figures of his country
that don’t look well.
It is clear that
when the world economic competition is hard, the autocratic leaderships reduce
flexibility of the economic systems of its countries.
President Xi Jinping
will have to change his style if he wants to stay in the head of China for long time. 0 Recommendations 07/09/2015 03:32:22 PM
MY COMMENT: The artificial intelligence is not new and it
is embedded in financial operations since long time ago.
The new software and
computers have more power and better features than in the past.
This trend will
continue step by step. Nobody will stop the implementation of next generations
of artificial intelligence systems associated with the financial operations and
the evaluation of stocks.
However, a stock
analyst always will be able to reflect more sensitivity in the evaluation of
financial results than the “robots”. 1 Recommendation 07/09/2015 03:21:03 PM
MY COMMENT: The news from Ford that it is moving the
small car production outside U.S. has pros and cons.
The movement of a
production plant outside U.S. implies fewer jobs in U.S. if the car maker does not assign the current
American workers to new manufacturing projects in the country. 07/09/2015 02:58:41 PM
MY COMMENT: The problem of the Syrian minorities is not
new. Since the revolution started in 2011, they are in the middle of the
confrontation of different groups, but close to President Bashar al-Assad.
Of course, the
advance of the Islamic State put them in a worse situation than before.
The ISIS militants are terrible cruel against all
they consider enemies, in special if these people are Christians. The current
situation of the Syrian minorities is dramatic. 7/09/2015 02:43:03 PM
MY COMMENT: After Bernie Sanders started his campaign for
the Democratic nomination of the 2016 presidential elections, a lot of
observers feel surprised. Before, nobody expected that the Vermont senator could generate echo in the
population.
Bernie Sanders has
nothing to lose and he can create problems to Hillary. He is acting like the
American “Robin Hood” of the 2016 election.
The question is how
many of the poor people are really in conditions to vote and looking for a new
different alternative. 3 Recommendations
07/08/2015 03:18:33 PM
MY COMMENT: The new Microsoft CEO is reviewing the Nokia purchase
with hard initiatives.
The Nokia
acquisition was a crazy fantasy of the previous CEO, Steve Ballmer. It is not
the fault of the Nokia’s employees that come to Microsoft with the purchase.
The cut of 7,800
jobs is a bad news, but today it is normal that when a company wants to reduce
costs, its first action is to see the payroll and decide how many employees
will go to the street. 1 Recommendation 07/08/2015 03:02:54 PM
MY COMMENT: It is looks strange that the Vietnam’s Communist Party Chief came as a visitor to
the White House.
In the photo for the
press of the Vietnamese leader and President Obama, they are smiling like they
are friends from long time. 1 Recommendation 07/08/2015 12:02:13 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/
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