var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/09/are-pizza-and-soda-price-elastic/’,size:‘large’} A team from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seems to think so:
U.S. researchers estimate that an 18 percent tax on pizza and soda can push down U.S. adults’ calorie intake enough to lower their average weight by 5 pounds (2 kg) per year.
The researchers, writing […]
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Are Pizza and Soda Elastic?
March 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Education, Health, Law, Politics, Science
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Stratfor’s Top Predictions for the “2010s”
February 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, China, Economics, Europe, Finance, Globalization, Russia
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/24/stratfors-top-predictions-for-the-next-decade-china-collapse-global-labor-shortages-new-american-dominance/’,size:‘large’} Sam’s always predicting gloom and doom for the US economy (often while mysteriously touting that of Israel). So, I thought I’d share STRATFOR’S TOP PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE: China Collapse, Global Labor Shortages, New American Dominance.
Indeed, the US does face some real issues (not actually mentioned by Business […]
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Too Many Men
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East, War
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Michael J. Totten watches this YouTube video and makes an important point:
I don’t know much about demography, but Martin Kramer makes a strong case in just a few short minutes for the idea that a surplus of military-aged males is a big part of the Middle East’s […]
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World in 2025
December 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Books, Britain, Business, China, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Oil, Politics, Religion, Russia, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/27/world-in-2025/’,size:‘large’} So I recently came across a report written last year by the U.S. National Intelligence Council on what the world may look like in seventeen years. Here is a summary:
The whole international system—as constructed […]
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Japanese Culture
December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Feminism, Health, Japan, Law, Media, Politics, Sex, Technology, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/12/17/japanese-culture/’,size:‘large’} RISHON LEZION, Israel — Roger Cohen makes some depressing observations on the land of the rising setting sun:
…I’m not aware of any other nation where fantasy, escapism and the cyber world have fused with such intensity.
Indeed, there’s a Japanese word, otaku, denoting a whole universe of monomaniacal geek-like obsession, […]
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The Economic Future
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, Business, China, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Egypt, Finance, Law, Liberal Pundits, Politics
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Every American should watch this thirty-minute, non-partisan documentary on the financial apocalypse towards which the United States is heading.
Related: Why My Generation is Pissed Off and The Upcoming Generational War
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Leading, Lagging Indicators
September 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, China, Economics, Europe, India, Israel, Politics, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/09/05/leading-lagging-indicators/’,size:‘large’} The U.S. unemployment rate has inched closer to ten percent, but as one analyst notes, there are signs that the worst might be over soon:
The continued moderation in the pace of job losses does offer some encouragement on the state of the U.S. labor market. Nevertheless, with the […]
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A New Dark Age?
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Globalization, Israel, Journalism, Marketing, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/05/12/a-new-dark-age/’,size:‘large’} RISHON LEZION, Israel — Parag Khanna predicts a return to a “neomedieval” world in the near future:
Many see the global economic crisis as proof that we live in one world. But as countries stumble to right the wrongs of the corporate masters of the universe, they are driving us […]
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Geography is Destiny
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Britain, China, Culture, Economics, Energy, Environment, Europe, Globalization, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Oil, Palestine, Politics, Russia, War
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/05/12/geography-is-destiny/’,size:‘large’} Robert Kaplan, writing in Foreign Policy, writes that geography has always laid the foundations for conflict throughout the world in the past and present. The article is your assigned reading for today.
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And Now, China
May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, China, Economics, Finance, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/05/06/and-now-china/’,size:‘large’} China might come out of the financial meltdown as the world’s number-one economic power. See here.
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Falling Behind
May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Globalization, Music, Science
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/05/03/falling-behind/’,size:‘large’} Thomas Friedman is rightly worried about the future of U.S. schools:
Just a quick review: In the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. dominated the world in K-12 education. We also dominated economically. In the 1970s and 1980s, we still had a lead, albeit smaller, in educating our population through secondary […]
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Spengler Reveals Himself
April 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Britain, Business, China, Christianity, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Globalization, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/04/20/spengler-reveals-himself/’,size:‘large’} David P. Goldman reveals himself to be Spengler, the most important columnist of our time:
The 300 or so essays that I have published in this space since 1999 all proceeded from the theme formulated by [German-Jewish theologian Franz] Rosenzweig: the mortality of nations and its causes, Western secularism, Asian anomie, […]
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Chinese Worries
March 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, China, Economics, Finance, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/03/15/chinese-worries/’,size:‘large’} The Chinese prime minister says he is “worried” about the level of U.S. debt held by the country. If I were a person who keeps loaning money to someone who is increasingly unable to pay it back, I would be worried as well.
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Who Owns Whom?
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Business, China, Economics, Finance, Globalization, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/02/23/who-owns-whom/’,size:‘large’} Hillary Clinton is pleading with China to keep financing the debt of the United States:
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday urged China to keep buying US debt as she wrapped up her first overseas trip, during which she agreed to work closely with Beijing on the financial crisis. […]
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When Nations Decline
January 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Britain, Business, China, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Energy, Europe, Globalization, Oil, Philosophy, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2009/01/10/when-nations-decline/’,size:‘large’} Whenever I think about the United States, I cannot help but remember the following quotation from Scottish historian Alexander Fraser Tytler on the purported cycle that all countries and empires go through:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From […]
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