Articles by James K. Glassman
Rescue, But Not Outrage
Early this morning (Hong Kong time), I was interviewed on CNN International (here's the video) about the consequences of recent rescues of American citizens sentenced to long prison terms in some of the world's worst countries — specificially, former President...
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Town Hells?
"Town halls have become town hells," says Mark McKinnon, a former adviser to President Bush who supported Barack Obama in the November election. He was referring, of course, to contentious meetings between members of Congress and constituents on the subject...
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Franchise Follies
Imagine you own a business whose sales have fallen in a year by one-third to one-half. You might improve your products. Or find ways to make them for less. Or eliminate particular lines that consumers shun. But would you want...
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Frankensteins, or Davids?
Evgeny Morozov's thoughtful piece in Boston Review on Cyber Utopia, which I found through John Brown's admirable blog, gives bows to Clay Shirky and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and places some nice emphasis on our favorite subject,...
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Jim Glassman on CNBC's Kudlow & Company
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT FOR THE JUNE 14, 2006 KUDLOW & COMPANY PROGRAM ON CNBC (5:00PM - 6:00PM) LARRY KUDLOW, host: All right. Welcome back, everybody. This is the first of a couple of debates, as though that political section weren't...
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Lost at Sea
On Saturday afternoon, Philip Merrill, publisher of The Washingtonian magazine and the Annapolis Capital and until recently president of the Export-Import Bank, set out in his 41-foot sailboat, The Merrilly, for a three-hour cruise across the Chesapeake Bay, where
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Misery Index
The global economy is roaring. "For the first time since 1969," reports a newsletter I rely on, Bridgewater Daily Observations, "not a single country in the world has had negative year-over-year growth." Overall, the world economy is rising at a...
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Bush on Gas Prices: Who's He Kidding?
With gasoline prices close to $3 a gallon, President Bush this morning gave a disingenuous speech to an alternative fuels association about what he was going to do to stem the rising tide. There were a few flashes of candor...
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Ukraine in the Balance
Ukraine, with its abundant resources and resourceful population of 47 million (larger than Spain), has become a rising star in Europe since its "Orange Revolution" little over a year ago. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine remained in...
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Good for America
Just last week, the shareholders of P&O, that venerable relic of the British Empire, agreed to sell their company to a group called Dubai Ports World, for $6.8 billion. DP World won a bidding war with another company from a...
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