The long mystery of low interest rates CAMBRIDGE - As policymakers and investors continue to fret over the risks posed by todays ultra-low global interest rates, academic economists continue to debate the underlying causes. By now, everyone accepts some version of U.S. Federal Reserve..
What students are thinking about today Today's college and university students are tomorrow's global leaders. How do they think about the world today? What are the stresses? What are the rewards? How much time do they spend on line each day? In order to shed some light here, I surveyed ..
The real Thatcher revolution UNITED NATIONS - Margaret Thatcher, Britains conservative prime minister between 1979-1990, was a revolutionary. As the first female prime minister she emerged as a truly transformational figure both on the domestic and foreign front and soon cha..
Rising threat of attack from North Korea U.S. Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim said at the Millennium Forum of the Korea Economic Daily on April 2 that if North Korea was ready to refrain from provocations and fulfill its promises and obligations, the U.S. was ready to talk with its leader Ki..
Germany's choice FRANKFURT - The euro crisis has already transformed the European Union from a voluntary association of equal states into a creditor-debtor relationship from which there is no easy escape. The creditors stand to lose large sums should a member state..
Margaret Thatcher reshaped Britain Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at the age of 87, was the most influential British prime minister in U.S. politics since Winston Churchill.
Need to cut interest rates North Korea and Japan are likely dominating the thinking of Bank of Korea Governor Kim Choong-soo on whether to cut interest rates when the central bank meets today for its monthly monetary policy deliberations.
Korean regionalism No country or nation can claim to be completely unified. Differences between parts of a country or nation capture diversity, situate opportunities for learning and collaboration, and reflect deeper sources of environmental, cultural, and other soci..
BRICS without mortar CAMBRIDGE - Last month, Chinas new president, Xi Jinping, chose Moscow for his first foreign visit. He and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a number of agreements and then traveled to Durban, South Africa, for the fifth BRICS summit,..
Obligation to remove threat of cluster munitions It was both a hopeful and a sobering visit we had recently to the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE), an innovative local organization in Vientiane, Lao PDR, that provides rehabilitation services to survivors of Unexploded Ordnan..
How do Korean students compare globally? Good fortune has brought me the opportunity to do some college teaching here in Korea at two very fine universities, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) and Sookmyung Womens University (SMU). Both have a global outlook. Both bring stude..
Is there no way out of N. Korean imbroglio? LOS ANGELES - It is probably a good idea to regard the latest bombastic threats from the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as one usually does: the antics of an angry child hurling the rattle out of the crib in hope of getting parents to pay m..
Appeal of fake news The English narration dubbed over the North Korean video paints a dystopian picture of life in America, where citizens are forced to eat snow to survive after they wiped out the bird population for food. Homeless people sit on park benches next to ..
Jane and Henry My daughter is two, and she already has a best friend. When she began to say intelligible words, one of the first to jump out of her mouth was her friends name. Ill call her Jane. When we ask her, "Whos your best friend? she says with a smil..
North Korea: opportunity amid threat For the people of South Korea, North Korea is many things: a sister/brother nation divided by the constructions of history and politics, a land of family members separated by ideology and conflict, a country of hundreds of thousands of potential re..
Dictator who likes basketball, not reform Gone is the Dear Leader and sophisticated fashionista Kim Jong-il, with his platform shoes, bouffant hair, and oversize sun glasses. However, his son and Great Successor Kim Jong-un is fast becoming an international sensation, along with his..
Middle East's lost decade BERLIN - The United States has waged three wars since al-Qaidas terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001: against al-Qaida, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq. The first two were forced upon the U.S., but the third was the result of a willful, deliberate dec..
