Dear Friends:
I would like to
share with you a “summary” of recent news and the comments posted by myself in
the WSJ Journal Community about headlines of the Wall Street Journal from March
9 to March 18.
The comments are
about politics (American presidential campaign, German elections, Brazilian
crisis…), 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.
Important: Some of the comments were rewritten
according to the summary of news.
Domingo Trassens
Analyst
World Rethink
March 18, 2016
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BLOG COMMENTS: 2016/02/29 - 016/03/09
MY COMMENT: As I always remark, Dow Industrials never
declines for long period. The gloomy cycles of Wall Street have good ends.
03/17/2016 06:31:37 PM 1 Recommendation
This story comments
that the Paris Bistro devastated by the ISIS attack is re-opening its doors now.
MY COMMENT: Surely, “La Belle Equipe” will be a new stop
of the tours of the tourists that come to Paris.
03/17/2016 06:26:37 PM 1 Recommendation
This story says that
Donald Trump is warning about ‘riots’ if the Republican leaders refuse to
nominate him as GOP candidate.
MY COMMENT: Donald Trump has all the “machinery” to
destroy the last hurdles that remain in the Republican Party against him. He is
working to rename the GOP as Trump Party.
03/17/2016 06:20:09 PM 3 Recommendations
MY FIRST COMMENT:
It is evident that with the
Russian friendship, Iran cans become a military power.
The decision of Russia to refuse sanctions against Iran for its latest ballistic-missile tests shows
again that the Obama Administration was wrong when it signed the Iranian
nuclear deal.
03/17/2016 06:10:36 PM 3 Recommendations
MY SECOND COMMENT
ANSWERING TO ANOTHER JOURNAL MEMBER: It was a capitulation to the enemy, something that the military laws
castigate with hard punishment.
03/17/2016 06:46:03 PM 3 Recommendations
The daily summary of
news of Wall Street Journal posted a chapter about the Justice nominee of
President Obama and the first reactions of Republican Senators.
MY COMMENT: The negative reaction of the Republican
Senators about the Justice nominee of President Obama can become a double-edged
sword. They have to act a balanced way.
Some independent
observers think the current Republican Congress is the Congress of the “NO”.
This is a bad political image in a year of presidential elections.
03/17/2016 04:10:27 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: In the current times, the “depressed
employment” forces us to work for less than our efforts and background value.
03/17/2016 03:56:18 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The news says “Kerry determines Islamic State
is committing genocide”.
I believe that
everybody who has human blood has to think the same.
The ISIS militants kill for the pleasure to see the
corpses of their enemies and innocent people covered by the blood of the
humiliation.
03/17/2016 03:46:57 PM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: According to the results of some opinion
researches, 41% of Republican Ohioans and 37% of Floridians think “Mr. Trump
has run the most unfair campaign of the candidates.”
The pending question
is why they are voting him.
03/17/2016 02:26:42 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The Trump’s victory in Florida was facilitated by a strategy with weak
points of the Senator Rubio.
It looks like Marco
Rubio was thinking that Florida is only the Florida of the Cuban Americans that dominates the minds of South Florida.
However, the north
and center of Florida are different. These Floridians voted against him.
03/16/2016 08:15:02 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Really a “monster” like the mass killer
Anders Behring Breivik deserves to die.
He killed innocent
young people for his extreme ideology and he never apologized for his horrendous
crime.
03/16/2016 08:08:37 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Maybe the economists who suspect Fed will
raise rates in June are right.
We don’t know what
the Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen has in her mind till now.
03/16/2016 08:02:51 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Judge Merrick Garland, a potential Supreme
Court nominee selected by President Obama is is white, male, Jewish and from Chicago. Scalia was white, male and Catholic.
If Judge Merrick
Garland is elected, he will be the third Jew in the Supreme Court and a new
liberal in the former seat of a conservative.
03/16/2016 07:48:26 PM 1 Recommendation
This story talks
about the U.S. student who went to North Korea and made some wrong steps.
MY COMMENT: This U.S. college student was stupid. Everybody knows
that in Communist regime, you don't have to put your nose in the wrong place.
03/16/2016 05:44:58 PM 5 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: If the Republicans in Congress have to follow
President Trump in all, they will lose the identity of Republicans.
03/16/2016 05:20:36 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Everyone is growing in cloud computing. This
is not a merit of Oracle.
03/16/2016 10:49:35 AM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Amazon is strong in cloud computing and it is
using its own technological experience for others.
03/15/2016 12:14:48 PM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: The terror is coming to the Berlin streets. This is a serious warning that Germany and Europe have to consider carefully.
The "human
trash" that entered to Europe
mixed with the migrants has to be deported.
No more tolerant
with the devils that come to the West with "faces" of poor people!
03/15/2016 12:11:59 PM 8 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: The news says that GM and others plan to
launch self-driving vehicles to the market with an approximately value of
$20,000 per unit.
Important question:
Who will be the responsible of the accidents of the self-driving vehicles: the
car maker or the driver? (Several days ago, we knew that the self-driving car
of Google bumped a bus in a normal street).
03/14/2016 07:59:20 PM 3 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: President Putin said Russian forces will
start the Syria withdrawal because the main mission has been accomplished. This
argument doesn’t look true.
Probably, the real
reason is economic and impossibility to charge costs to Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad.
03/14/2016 07:21:59 PM 2 Recommendations
MY FIRST COMMENT:
Fantasy or not, Paul Ryan
can be a very good Republican candidate to win the presidential election.
03/14/2016 03:25:05 PM 6 Recommendations
MY SECOND COMMENT
ANSWERING TO ANOTHER JOURNAL MEMBER: Paul Ryan is the "best card" the Republicans have to win in
November against Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders).
Paul Ryan is a
politician with very good roots and with experience in key issues the new
president has to manage immediately next year. Also he has the capability to
unify, one of the serious weakness of the other candidates.
03/14/2016 03:48:15 PM 6 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: If we analyze the behavior of the German political environment, we have
to affirm that the current popularity of AfD doesn't imply a total defeat of
the big German parties.
Always, CDU and SPD
find the way to recover themselves from their defeats. Both parties had other important
falls before.
Independently of
all, the victory of AfD is a serious warning for the current national
government coalition - CDU, SPD and CSU.
03/14/2016 10:58:00 AM 2 Recommendations
MY FIRST COMMENT:
AR, augmented reality, looks
like it will be a new “tech component” of the digital world of next decades.
Its impact will be not immediately
.
Frequently, some
technologies need time to consolidate in the digital environment.
For example, the
first projects of Internet-phone devices were to the “grave” without glory in
short time.
03/14/2016 10:29:43 AM 1 Recommendation
MY SECOND COMMENT
ANSWERING TO ANOTHER JOURNAL MEMBER: This new technology is motivating exciting comments from tech fans. Its
name is "augmented reality".
The "augmented
reality" can act like an intelligent extension of your eyes, but till now
we don't know all the pros and cons of this technology. We have to observe,
analyze and see its evolution.
Sometimes, a
technology helps in the right way. In other cases, it generates new problems.
03/14/2016 10:49:35 AM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The journalist of the Wall Street Journal who
followed the German election wrote about the results of the voting in different
states without a deep knowledge of the political environment of this European
country.
The important point
is that if we read the news posted for the German media (DW), we see that in
the first case of the Wall Street Journal’ story - Saxony-Anhalt – the hard punishment was against SPD,
Socialist Democratic Party, and partner of the current government coalition.
The title of the Wall
Street Journal story looks like the strike was only against Angela Merkel.
Here I am rewriting
my comment posted in TWITTER for the DW publication: “Domingo Trassens @trassens 2h
@dw_germany “The
victory of AfD was really impressive in Saxony-Anahalt,, where AfD won 24.2
percent. But in this state, the victim was SPD.
In Saxony-Anahalt,
the hard punishment was against SPD (10.5%). CDU, the Merkel’s party, won 30.0%
and AfD 24.2%.”
In summary, the
punishment was divided. In some states CDU felt the first impact. In others
cases, SPD - member of the government coalition - was the first victim.
03/14/2016 10:40:59 AM 4 Recommendations
This story makes a summary
of the famous litigation cases of Donald Trump.
MY FIRST COMMENT:
Litigation, confrontation
and intimation are tools to grow in front rivals with fears. When a bully
attacks you have to react with his same tools.
03/13/2016 08:47:00 PM 2 Recommendations
MY SECOND COMMENT
ANSWERING TO ANOTHER JOURNAL MEMBER: Trump's reputation for using court system for business interests is
bad, but his followers don't care.
03/14/2016 02:55:00 AM 3 Recommendations
This story was
published before the defeat of Marco Rubio in Florida.
MY COMMENT: The Republican battle for Florida was a fight of the humble army of Rubio
followers against the huge marketing apparatus of Donald Trump.
03/14/2016 02:44:02 AM 2 Recommendations
This story says that
Yahoo named new directors with the intention to redefine its business. The
crucial point is the current management of the Internet provider wants to sell
the “core business” of the company.
MY COMMENT: If Yahoo sells its core business, Yahoo will
be not more Yahoo.
Its name will pass
to the Tech History as the Internet company defeated by Google. Another loser!
03/14/2016 12:39:41 AM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The Brazilians like to make noisy protests,
but when they have elections they don’t reflect their anger in the same way.
Before the last
presidential election, a lot of people were to the street shouting against
President Dilma Rousseff. After that, the voting gave her a second term as
president of country.
Now, the protesters returned
to the street complaining against the Brazilian government and the President Dilma
Rousseff. What will be the next?
03/14/2016 12:10:16 AM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: College students can offer fresh ideas about
monetary policy, but they have also a lot to learn from the experience of the
Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen.
03/13/2016 11:54:59 PM
MY COMMENT: The cloud computing is like a “sea” where a
lot “ships” full of data navigate through.
Hewlett Packard
Enterprise, IBM and Microsoft have tools and experts to analyze the cloud
traffic and the “data ships” and generate new services.
03/13/2016 11:11:36 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Every bombing attack is devastating, but Turkey is neighbor of the Syrian Inferno and its
leaders are not “angels”. The Turkish regime has more enemies than friends.
03/13/2016 10:51:18 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The news says “U.S. and EU press Libyans for unity against
Islamic State”.
The only way to
unify the Libyans is following a strong leader, maybe a new dictator.
03/13/2016 07:56:31 PM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: It is evident that the endorsement of Ben
Carson is not free. It has a “price”. He wants to be the Number 2 of Donald
Trump.
How many want to be
the new partner of Trump?
03/13/2016 07:49:19 PM 1 Recommendation
This story was
posted before Marco Rubio lost the Florida election and announced that he is leaving
the presidential race.
MY COMMENT: The math of the polls doesn’t show a good
future for Marco Rubio. He is second in Florida and fourth in Illinois and Ohio.
03/13/2016 07:41:35 PM 6 Recommendations
This story was
posted before the last Sunday election in some German states.
MY COMMENT: During the last decade, Angela Merkel was the
only German politician leader who went ahead despite a series of crises.
However, her migration politics doesn't close well.
03/13/2016 10:29:00 AM 3 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: Ted Cruz has friends and also hard enemies.
He has to build big “bridges” to joint the Republicans who want important
changes but they have fears about his temperament and reactions.
03/12/2016 07:30:32 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: Virtual Reality is the “path” for the next
generation of digital games.
03/12/2016 07:24:52 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The statement of John Kasich saying that
Mr.Trump has created 'toxic' environment in the wake of Chicago protests is right, but the Trump followers
don't care.
03/12/2016 07:13:49 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The economic miracles are economic cycles
where a country or company climbs to the hill. Normally, after that it
declines.
03/12/2016 04:57:18 PM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: Congratulations to the software engineers who
developed the programs that won the human Go champion.
Always behind a computer
program, there are software engineers who develop them. They deserve the:
“Congratulations!”
03/12/2016 04:48:36 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The Russian tennis player Maria
Sharapova made a mistake that it is not possible to clean with tears.
03/12/2016 04:45:09 PM 5 Recommendations
The story says that
Burger King is returning to its classic food menus.
MY COMMENT: Burger King learned an important lesson: When
you want to change your identity, you lose your business.
03/12/2016 04:41:39 PM 1 Recommendation
MY FIRST COMMENT:
Now it is late to talk about
the Germanwings co-pilot had to be hospitalized according the opinion of a
doctor.
It is evident that
who knew the co-pilot needed a medical treatment and didn't act, was negligent.
Frequently negligence
is the cause of big disasters.
03/12/2016 02:17:17 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The threats of retaliation are not new in the
Korea Peninsula.
South Koreans and
North Koreans will never live like good neighbors while a dictatorship regime
rules North Korea.
03/12/2016 02:09:23 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: We cannot expect something different from the
Myanmar military. They don't want to lose their
power.
03/11/2016 11:05:00 PM
MY COMMENT: The news says that GM invites hackers “to
detect software vulnerabilities”: Interesting cyber-security challenge! How GM
will pay the hackers?
03/11/2016 10:06:01 PM
MY COMMENT: The Islamic State is not tied to
international conventions about chemical agents. It will use all the resources
it needs to destroy the enemies and gain ground.
03/11/2016 06:18:30 PM 2 Recommendations
This story comments
the development of a robotic exoskeleton for the people who have mobility
problems.
MY COMMENT: Robotic Exoskeleton is a good application of
robotics to improve the way of living of people with serious diseases or
victims of accidents.
The bad side of the
motorized leg is the high cost. Frequently, the people with disability don’t
have economic resources to afford the cost of $80,000 for each device.
And the popular
medical insurances try to avoid the assistance of patients who need expensive
treatments or medical devices.
03/11/2016 05:52:01 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: The auto makers that want to continue in the
leadership of the market need advanced technologies. Cruise Automation can help
new GM's developments and its competition with German makers like BMW and
Mercedes Benz among others.
03/11/2016 05:38:01 PM 1 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: Doping is one of the “tools” using by corrupt
governments and sport people to win competitions.
03/11/2016 05:28:52 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: We -the Western citizens- can have
humanitarian feelings for the migrants who come from the Middle-East, Asia and Africa. However the migration has to be selective
if we don’t want to destroy our identity, our roots and our economy.
The fliers of
“Enough!” that Matthias Leupold , a German 51-year-old traveling salesman,
distributes across the streets of Lutherstadt Witternberg show a natural
reaction of the normal people of a country who knows very well what is hospitality.
03/10/2016 08:45:08 PM 7 Recommendations
This valuation is
too much for a startup. We are living in a world of big bubbles.
03/10/2016 06:27:54 PM 1 Recommendation
MY COMMENT: This man was the "great Brazilian
president" that opened the doors to another corrupt president. (In this
case, “great” is a sarcasm.)
03/10/2016 05:35:52 PM 2 Recommendations
MY COMMENT: Every time that we have presidential
elections, we feel economic uncertainty because normally each new president
makes changes on economic issues.
In this case, the
uncertainty is big because Trump and Sanders have extreme ideas about social
and economic key subjects.
03/10/2016 05:12:18 PM 2 Recommendations
(I posted this
comment also in Twitter with similar text. More than 1200 people marked it and
some of them gave me a vote of “favorite” o “like”.)
MY COMMENT: Step by step, the robots will take the
majority of the jobs now performed by humans. There are studies from several
decades ago that announce this robotics evolution.
03/10/2016 04:57:01 PM 2 Recommendations
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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.
