Here were my remarks at the Overseas Press Club Foundation luncheon Friday Feb. 24 at the Yale Club in Manhattan…
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Nick Kristof Is Right: What Did The President Know–And How Will He Respond to Russian Testing?
Nick Kristof nails the question of the hour in this piece today. Much as we asked during Watergate, what did the president know and when did he know it? Back then, we were talking about Nixon and the break-in at Democratic Party headquarters and a subsequent cover up. Today we’re asking what Trump know and […]…
New York Times Rediscovers Japanese Car Story
One of the tragedies of the American media is that it has bled out an entire generation of reporters and writers who actually remember how certain issues got started and how they were resolved–or not resolved. The U.S.-Japanese auto imbalance is just one of those issues, as evidenced by this piece in today’s Times. There […]…
How Will The Void in U.S.-Chinese Relations Be Filled?
I went to a Chinese New Year’s bash that the Hong Kong government put on last night in Manhattan and, amid the tinkle of champagne glasses, got a dose of what Hong Kong and China are thinking about President Trump. The new president has named Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as his new ambassador to China […]…
There Goes Goldman Sachs Again
According to today’s Wall Street Journal, former Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, who President Trump has tapped to be White House National Economic Council director, says he is going to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Act. This law was enacted in 2010 in reaction to the massive, systematic cheating that Wall Street and mortgage underwriters such as […]…
