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Sat, May 15, 2021 | 04:04

Do Charleston, if you have grits

It's time for another installment of “Places you should go before you can't tell a presidential executive order document from one of your White House German Shepherd's training pads!” Yes, recently my wife and three teenage daughters took a week-long family trip to Charleston, S.C. - also known as “The city where every meal will cost you at least two C-notes.”

2021-05-11 17:13

Biden in the Asia Pacific

The terms of Korean presidents are an oddity in advanced democracies. To curb the faux-presidential dictatorships of past presidents - like Park Chung-hee - the Korean Constitution only allows for one five-year fixed term.

2021-05-10 17:38

Will we get vaccine passports?

“Your papers, please,” has long been the customary greeting for people crossing borders, visiting many foreign countries, or sometimes even moving about cities under COVID-19 “lockdown.” At its worst the question conjures up what I call the “Checkpoint Charlie” syndrome, crossing into East Berlin or back during the bad old days or some other nervous foray into the East Bloc b...

2021-05-10 17:31

Two sides of Chinese GDP

CHICAGO - Economic reporting about China focuses far too much on total gross domestic product (GDP) and not enough on per capita GDP, which is the more revealing indicator. And this skewed coverage has important implications, because the two indicators paint significantly different pictures of China's current economic and political situation. They also focus our attention on ...

2021-05-10 17:29

Sustainability: agenda for human renewal

April 22 marked the 51st Earth Day, and on that day United States President Joseph Biden hosted his first summit on climate change in line with this year's theme, “Restore Our Earth.” This reflects the mounting concern over the global unsustainability crisis facing humanity. The Earth is suffering from the unprecedented level of abuse by humanity of its natural ecosystems, go...

2021-05-09 18:46

Who will win cryptocurrency race first: private vs. public sector?

By 2022, there will be a tax levied by the Korean government on any income from cryptocurrency trading. Some said that it is too early or too much with a proposed 20 percent tax rate because the financial regulators have not come up with rules to protect investors yet. There is no unified or consistent regulatory framework on crypto currencies and assets while there is a rapi...

2021-05-09 18:40

Biden's not-so-humane immigration policies

Early morning on May 2, a commercial boat in the San Diego Bay called to report a distressed vessel near Point Loma. The vessel, maneuvering in seven-foot swells, fog and light rain, broke apart after hitting rocks. San Diego Lifeguard Lt. Rick Romero said that people were flailing about, drowning and getting sucked under by the currents.

2021-05-09 18:29

Just another Korea-US summit

WASHINGTON - The flurry of rhetoric from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington bears out one of the great verities of the perpetual North-South Korean confrontation: the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, more simply, same-old, same-old.

2021-05-06 17:42

Korea has too many small firms and it's hurting economic growth

From the 1950s to the mid-1990s, Korea pulled off an economic miracle: industrializing faster than virtually any nation in history. This process enabled Korea eventually to become the world's 10th largest economy today.

2021-05-06 17:29

Why US foreign policy aimed at obstructing China won't succeed

Marvelously, sharp streaks of sunshine are starting to break through America's COVID-19 cloud cover, but the fog over U.S. foreign policy seems heavy. It involves India, China and Russia.

2021-05-06 17:28

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