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 1 to July 7.
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 7, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/07/01
- 2015/07/07
MY COMMENT: After a new deadline, the Iran’s nuclear negotiation continues without an
agreement.
The western
negotiators are losing their time. The attitude of the Iranians is very
irresponsible. 1 Recommendation 07/07/2015 02:53:28 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says the Afghan Government is
discussing a formal peace agreement with the Taliban.
From the other side,
during the last few weeks, we learned about a new bombing attack that shook the
Parliament in Kabul.
What kind of peace
they can sign in these circumstances? 1 Recommendation 07/07/2015 02:43:41 PM
MY COMMENT: After the referendum, if the Eurozone
officials don’t act in a tough way, Alexis Tsipras will continue its play because
now he has in his hands the “No” of the Greeks. 1 Recommendation 07/07/2015 02:36:24 PM
MY COMMENT: The “NO” (OXI) is a Pyrrhic victory. Like all
the Pyrrhic victories, it will be very costly for Greece.
In the end, Alexis
Tsipras will not be a Greek hero. He will be like the old Greek anti-heroes. 6
Recommendations 07/06/2015 03:30:56 PM
MY COMMENT: It is good that Pope Francis cares for the
poor, but as leader of the Catholic Church, his comments against multinational
companies are not appropriate.
It will be better if
the Pope tries to persuade the owners of the capital to create more
opportunities for the poor countries and communities. Without capital and
investors, the economies don’t grow. Without economic growth, it is not
possible to generate better social conditions for the workers and their
families.
A confrontation
between the Church and the Capital is a wrong way to change the world in the
right direction.
From the other side,
the leaders of Ecuador and Bolivia are not model of good leaderships. They use
the poor in their own political benefit but they don’t push a social revolution
that improves the social-economic conditions of the population. Both countries
have important oil and mineral resources. But with a mask of “populists”,
President Rafael Correa and Evo Morales are manipulating their people as
puppets of the personal interests. 7 Recommendations 07/06/2015 03:12:32 PM
MY COMMENT: As the article says, Alcoa kicks off the
second-quarter earnings season.
Days later we will
know the revenues and profits of a series of very important technology
companies like IBM, Intel, Google, Apple and Microsoft.
In the previous
quarter, several of these technology companies didn’t show good figures. We have
to see their results of the new quarter. 07/06/2015 02:35:34 PM
MY COMMENT: The United States and the western negotiators are losing their
time dealing with Iran. This was clear from the first delay of the negotiations.
The Iranians want
all from the others, but they continue like in the first day playing and
playing…And they are very intransigent. 2 Recommendations 07/05/2015 02:37:41 PM
MY COMMENT: Probably, Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to become
the Robin Hood of the America of the New Millennium. 7 Recommendations 07/05/2015 02:27:58 PM
MY COMMENT: “NO” is bad news for the Europeans who
believed that Greece wanted to be part of Europe and
they helped it during all this long process…
Really, the Greeks
are losing the last opportunity to fix their problems in a reasonable way. 5
Recommendations 07/05/2015 02:20:06 PM
On America’s
Greece:
MY COMMENT: The Puerto Rican people like to sleep on the
“mattresses” of money they receive from the United States. 3 Recommendations 07/04/2015 03:03:57 PM
MY COMMENT: France will not solve the Greece’s problems, if the Greeks don’t make their
own effort to go away the financial crisis. 07/04/2015 02:57:18 PM
MY COMMENT: The case of the same-sex marriage was a clear
demonstration that the Supreme Court is divided like Congress between two
blocks: conservatives and liberals, and its decisions have a big influence of
the White House.
In fact, there is
not independence of powers like the Constitution demands. 2 Recommendations 07/03/2015 02:56:20 PM
MY COMMENT: The current situation of European Union is
the result of two big “sins”:
1) Greece lied about its financial sickness to be
admitted in the euro-zone. The financial and economic problems of the Greeks
come from long time ago before the country entered to the euro-zone.
2) The authorities
of the EU were negligent to block the entrance of Greece into the market. They closed their eyes and
they accepted a sick economy inside the community.
Now, we see the
consequences.
In addition, Alexis
Tsipras and his partners have complicated the situation during the last few
months with their suicide attitude. 2 Recommendations 07/03/2015 08:17:22 AM
MY COMMENT: This story about the US Labor Report of June says
“Hiring gains and unemployment falls, but pockets of softness lurk.”
We cannot expect an
economic miracle in the current times with serious financial problems in Europe, cheap manpower across a lot of Asian
countries and a series of mergers of big American and international companies
that hit the domestic market of the U.S.
If the situation
continues like now, the American salaries will fall more and we will have to
work for lower wages of the new robots that are entering to the labor work in
different segments of the industry. 1 Recommendation 07/02/2015 03:11:06 PM
MY COMMENT: This story remarks a very good point when it
says that the current Greek “government has run out of credit and credibility
at the same time.”
If German Chancellor
Angela Merkel has not more patience due to “Mr. Tsipras’s antics”, the best is
the Greek Prime Minister resigns. Without the support of Ms. Merkel, he cannot
rebuild the credibility of the country. 3 Recommendations 07/02/2015 02:48:29 PM
MY COMMENT: In communication to the employees, the Intel
CEO, Brian Krzanich, announced a series of leadership and organizational
changes including the departure of the Intel President Renée James.
We have to hope
these changes don’t produce an earthquake that shakes the organization of the
semiconductor manufacturer in a bad way.
Intel is a company
with strong roots in the Silicon Valley
and very professional management, but it has lived bad times since the PC sales
declined. 1 Recommendation 07/02/2015 02:14:53 PM
MY COMMENT: The terrorists want to spread chaos across Egypt. We have to see if President Abdel Fattah Al
Sisi can control the situation.
Days ago, somebody
criticized General Al Sisi for his tough attitude against terrorism activities.
With the ISIS militants and their associates, it is not
possible to be soft.
However, we have to
hope the government can suffocate the terrorist activities without make
mistakes that mobilize the civil population against the authorities. Egypt is a key country in the Middle East. 1 Recommendation 07/01/2015 02:37:50 PM
MY COMMENT: As Raul Castro said some months ago, Cuba will not modify its domestic politics to
satisfy the request of other country. 1Recommendation
07/01/2015 02:08:40 PM
MY COMMENT: Chinese Xiaomi is giving its first step to
become a world digital phone leader.
Brazil can help the young technology company to test how its products work in
a huge country different from China or India.
In addition, Brazil is an important door to enter in other Latin
American countries like Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Colombia. Of course, in some of these countries,
there are special regulations for the importation of technological products. 1
Recommendation 06/30/2015 03:27:03 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.
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