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 August 14 to August 21.
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
August 21, 2015
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2015/08/14
- 2015/08/21
MY COMMENT: Question: It this the end of Alexis
Tsipras in the Greek politics?
Mr. Tsypras likes to
play complicated “chess” movements.
Personally, we
believe Alexis Tsipras will continue in the government with a stronger position
than now. 1 Recommendation 08/20/2015 02:54:40 PM
MY COMMENT: Turkey versus PKK! This is a new confrontation among
Turks and Kurds, but it will be not the last. 1 Recommendation 08/20/2015 02:39:02 PM
MY COMMENT: Islamic State is targeting Egypt, but Egypt is not Syria, Iraq or Lebanon.
Today Egypt is ruled by President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, a general with resolution and fighting experience. General Al Sisi can become a serious obstacle for the ambitions of ISIS militants. 3 Recommendations 08/20/2015 01:05:29 PM
Today Egypt is ruled by President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, a general with resolution and fighting experience. General Al Sisi can become a serious obstacle for the ambitions of ISIS militants. 3 Recommendations 08/20/2015 01:05:29 PM
MY COMMENT: Irony! In China, there is a methodology to determine the
richest person of the country.
According to a new
methodology, Wang Jianlin, real-estate businessman, surpassed Jack Ma, founder
and chairman of Alibaba.
What about the
poorest person? We think it is difficult to determine the poorest of the poor
Chinese among millions. 08/20/2015 08:25:47 AM
MY COMMENT: North and South Korea always have border problems for different
reasons.
The last incident
was days before, when some land mines maimed two South Korea soldiers.
Till now, the
exchange of fire looks like a routine incident between both Koreas.
However, the high alert of the North Korean troops is risky.
Mr. Kim, the current leader of this country, is unpredictable and his people
follow his capricious orders like “androids”.
International
observers fear a bigger confrontation. We have to observe if the North Korean
provocations continue and the reactions of South Korea. 1 Recommendation 08/20/2015 07:50:18 AM
MY COMMENT: A new beheading, in this case of a Syrian
scholar.
Islamic State
militants are cruel barbarians, “human-butchers” and bitter enemies of the
cultural roots of the Middle-East. 6 Recommendations 08/19/2015 02:25:43 PM
MY COMMENT: This is not an exclusive problem of the
airlines of the United States.
For example, in Europe, the employees of Lufthansa have frequent
conflicts with the company and the passengers suffer the consequences. 1
Recommendation 08/19/2015 02:18:50 PM
MY COMMENT: As we know, the fall of the sales of PCs
declined revenues and reduced profits in recent financial results of the
semiconductor maker of Santa Clara,
California.
At Intel Developer
Forum 2015 (IDF) in San Francisco, this week, Intel is making a huge effort to show that is not only PC
chips maker.
Intel CEO Brian
Krzanich and his team are showing the unknown face of Intel with presentations
of Reality TV Show, Internet of Things, Big Data, Robotics and more…
We have to see, in
what way, the effort of the Intel CEO opens new business doors for the
technology company in short and long term. 1 Recommendation 08/19/2015 10:41:55 AM
MY COMMENT: The review of the Apple CarPlay looks good,
but the testing of this device was made driving a car in the New Jersey
Turnpike.
Traveling across
small towns and through local hilly roads in the Rocky Mountains, sometimes the digital devices for checking
maps don’t give good information during the night in the snowing winters.
I will be
interesting to know the results of several tests of the Apple CarPlay in
different regions of the country with less communication infrastructure than
the New Jersey Turnpike. 1 Recommendation 08/19/2015 09:40:46 AM
MY COMMENT: The people who invest in countries ruled by
totalitarian regimes know they are taking serious risks.
In this kind of
countries, when the authorities take decisions don't care who can be damaged.
They don’t have respect for foreign investors or the own citizens.
Before the
devaluation, the economic environment of China was pessimist for more than a quarter.
Everybody who
invested in yuan knew the regime could take a drastic decision about its
currency without any official warning. 3 Recommendations 08/19/2015 05:32:48 AM
MY COMMENT: The confrontation between Republican and
Democrats on Planned Parenthood controversy is growing.
And according to
this story, Hillary Clinton is acting like a standard-bearer of the Planned
Parenthood. 2 Recommendations 08/18/2015 02:20:18 PM
MY COMMENT: The decision of Wal-Mart to cuts its outlook
for the current quarter could be an indication that the retail sales of the
season of the return of the school are weak.
Frequently, in this
period of the year, the families with children in the school go to the shops and
department stores to buy clothes and stuff for the school. 1 Recommendation 08/18/2015 02:06:43 PM
MY COMMENT: During the last few years we learned about a
series of Senate hearings with members of Federal Reserve without effective
conclusions.
This story says; “U.S. lacks ammo for next economic crisis”. But
nobody asks if Janet Yellen – Federal Reserve Chairwoman - is the right “captain”
to lead the ship in stormy times.
Ms. Yellen has an
extraordinary academic background, but she has not relevant experience in the
financial industry. 1 Recommendation 08/18/2015 01:45:47 PM
MY COMMENT: Tianjin explosions demand a serious investigation of
experts in the storage of dangerous materials and security procedures.
Probably, the Tianjin explosions are consequences of a new case of
corruption. 1 Recommendation 08/18/2015 01:22:41 PM
MY COMMENT: The massive invasion of immigrants of regions
affected for civil wars and high levels of poverty continue creating serious
problems to the European countries.
In the middle of this
drama, the human traffickers who organize the trips of the immigrants make more
complex the panorama.
The story asks about
the factors that help or block to the immigrants: money, race, religion…
With smugglers and
human traffickers is not possible to make a deal. If you have more money
probably you will have more possibilities than others. But this is not
guaranteed. 1 Recommendations 08/17/2015 03:27:07 PM
MY COMMENT: Every day we learn about more negligent acts
of the institutions of the government that hit to the normal people.
Now IRS says the
data breach is affecting more than 300,000 accounts. The point is who will
repair this damage. Surely, the answer is: Nobody!
Meanwhile, the
political circus continues with pork chops, helicopters and the fun like that
we saw during the weekend in Iowa. 13 Recommendations 08/17/2015 03:03:33 PM
MY COMMENT: The chemicals found in the port of Tianjin are very dangerous material. Hundreds of
tons of toxic sodium cyanide are enough poison to kill thousands of people. 1
Recommendation 08/16/2015 03:19:57 PM
MY COMMENT: According to the news, the missing Indonesian passenger airplane was
making a short flight across the country.
In a 42-minute
flight, you can find the death. Terrible end of life! 1 Recommendation 08/16/2015 03:13:51 PM
MY COMMENT: The Brazilian protests are the tears
of stupid people who always vote wrong.
Last year, Dilma Rousseff
won a second term. And now after her 2nd victory, the people return to the
street in big anti government protests.
We have to remember
that months before the last year election, also the Brazilians were to the
street protesting against Dilma, but in the moment of the elections, she won
her second term. 6 Recommendations 08/16/2015 03:11:04 PM
MY COMMENT: The promise of deportation sounds similar to
the Guantanamo closure. In times of elections, the
candidates promise everything. 1 Recommendation 08/16/2015 02:48:41 PM
MY COMMENT: Islamic State is not regular state. Now, the
questions are: Who will stop ISIS in the
use of mustard agent? And how ISIS will
be stopped?
We cannot deal with
terrorists, but we have to fight against them in an effective way. 1
Recommendation 08/15/2015 09:07:48 PM
MY COMMENT: Till now Iowa doesn’t look well for Jeb Bush. 1
Recommendation 08/15/2015 03:40:55 PM
MY COMMENT: We make statistics for all. This story starts
with the question: “What’s the cost of bringing up Baby?” and after that it says
“The Short Answer: The average household spends $12,940 on an infant.”
Personally, we think
$12,940 is only a number. Somebody else can say: $12,800 or $13,000 or more or
less… All depends of the social level of the parents and where they live.
The conclusion is
that today is very costly to have babies and after that to send the children to
the school. For this reason, a lot of couples try to avoid having children. 08/15/2015 03:18:00 PM
MY COMMENT: During the last few years the Mediterranean Sea became a big grave of a lot of immigrants
looking for new horizons.
According to the
news, today at least 40 migrants died trying to cross the sea from the north of
Libya to Italy.
The European leaders
talk about the series of boat accidents, but nobody stops the smugglers who
organize these trips.
The open question is
how many more immigrants will die tomorrow, next week, next months. 2
Recommendations 08/15/2015 02:53:27 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.
