Gulf Shores To see an article in the NYT calling globalization into question because of rising fuel prices must have left Thomas Friedman’s collar sweating in the editorial pages, but there it was right on the front page. Lord, they were even talking about “neighborhood economics” (which is not quite what we think of as …
Category: International
Dabbawalas
St Petersburg The romance has been gone from flying for quite some time, but in the current fuel crises, the ridiculous has become the absurd as schedules worsen and costs accelerate. Earlier this week I took what once was a relatively painless hop to Chicago on direct flights from New Orleans up and back …
India Shift
Chicago Prime Minister Singh took a big political chance on a confidence vote, essentially substituting the left parties that formed with his Congress Party, the UPA coalition, with a collection of right parties, sufficiently to win the right to continue bargaining a treaty for nuclear assistance from the USA. Had he lost the vote, …