Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 3, 2010
Unemployment in the US inching towards 10%
Not good news for the Obama administration and specially not good for the many unemployed US workers . While the American economy created 67,00 jobs in the private sector in August, which was slightly better than expected , it was still not enough to bring down the unemployment rate which in fact went up slightly to 9.6 percent. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
August 27, 2010
In Switzerland, a referendum avoided
Among the world’s natural disaster news, the bad economic global reports, the craziness of the US politics and their Tea-Party movement, to read that the Swiss wanted to have a referendum to revive capital punishment in the country after 68 years, seemed almost a joke. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 19, 2010
The British are coming…
British Prime Minister David Cameron, in power since last May, arrives Tuesday to the US for his first official visit. In the UK there is a lot of expectation about the treatment he will receive by the Obama administration. The British have not forgotten the shoddy treatment the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown got last year during his White House visit. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 15, 2010
Defection or kidnapping?
The story of the Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri could be one of those spy thrillers many of us read on the beaches or plane trips. But it seems to be a real thing as much as we take the word real with a pinch of salt. At the moment most of us can write as many comments as we want to articles or blogs but the truth is that we don’t know what really has happened. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 6, 2010
Stubborn unemployment
If one looks at it from Europe, the unemployment rate in the US does not look so bad. The problem is that the rate does not tell exactly what is going on. For instance, in May the rate declined to 9.5% from 9.7% but that did not mean that more jobs were available. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 23, 2010
President Obama and his many problems
In the US the controversy about General McChrystal’s interview published in the Rolling Stone magazine has exploded. And not at the best time for President Obama who has a number of problems in his hands, specially the disaster about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 20, 2010
BP is not the only one to blame…
After the intense ‘grilling’ that a US congressional committee put BP chief executive,Tony Hayward, last Thursday one would have expected that afterwards we would have concentrated in solving the disaster that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Read the rest of this entry »
