Early Bird Headlines 03 April 2015
Econintersect: Here are some of the headlines we found to help you start your day. For more headlines see our afternoon feature for GEI members, What We Read Today, which has many more headlines and a number of article discussions to keep you abreast of what we have found interesting.
U.S.
- Goldman: Here’s Where U.S. Investors Should Put Their Money for the Rest of the Year (Bloomberg Business) Weightings recommended for 10 sectors. Information Tech, Energy and Telecom Services are the three sectors recommended overweight.
- In Times of Drought: Nine Economic Facts about Water in the United States (The Hamilton Project, Brookings)
- Warren Buffett is Everything That’s Wrong With America (The Automatic Earth) Hat tips to John Hemington and Roger Erickson. This is an essay within the framework of The Tragedy of the Commons theme.
- We Send Teachers to Prison for Rigging the Numbers, Why Not Bankers? (New Economic Perspectives) Bill Black compares the crimes of teachers with those of bankers.
UK
- Election 2015: No clear winner from UK’s first seven-way leaders’ debate (Manchester Evening News)
Iran
- Five takeaways from Iran nuclear deal (Financial Times) (1) Sanctions may remain for years, (2) contols on uranium enrichment will last 10-15 years, (3) plutonium production will be abandoned for at least 15 years, (4) full inspection within Iran (except that questions remain about military research inspections) and (5) Technical issues reain buried in “fine print” and any of these could produce a political reaction that could (pardon the expression) blow everything up.
- A Skeptic’s Guide to the Iran Nuclear Deal (Foreign Policy) The mostly good, the slightly bad, and where it could all fall apart.
- Iranians celebrate nuclear deal: ‘This will bring hope to our life’ (The Guardian)
- A Foreign Policy Gamble by Obama at a Moment of Truth (The New York Times)
- I’m a Republican and I Support the Iran Nuclear Deal (Foreign Policy)
China
- China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang charged with bribery (The Guardian) Former politburo member also faces trial for abuse of power and leaking state secrets as Xi Jinping’s crackdown on alleged corruption finds its biggest target yet.
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