Until recently, I wasn’t aware that US presidential candidates were only allowed to accept $2,300 from a single individual in the primaries and another $2,300 for the presidential campaign. The only exception is the candidate him/herself who is allowed to invest as much as he/she wants. A candidate such as Michael Bloomberg therefore has a [...]
Tag Archives | Politics
Educating the children on democracy
I must say that my wife, Yendi, has taken the elections as a great opportunity to “teach” the children (Oscar 10 and Alexandra 7) the interest of the right to vote. Without bias, we have asked them to judge the candidate’s pamphlets (inevitably a visual assessment) as well as to go through the Le Monde [...]
French Presidential Elections: Greater use of the internet in the political debate
In these French elections, as an American, I do not vote. Nonetheless, I must applaud several internet-based initiatives, enabling voters to evaluate which candidate best corresponds to one’s own opinions via a series of questions. The computer simulation then spits out an answer. There are four internet quizzes that I took and would like to [...]
European competitivity, French competitivity
We are 24 hours away from the French elections and I feel compelled to add a new comment. I read an article by Cyrille Lachevre entitled “La faiblesse de la compétitivité française,” in the Figaro on April 12, 2007. Other European countries are making strides to compete more effectively. The article referred to the Swedish [...]
Irony of names
Have you ever read John Train’s “Most Remarkable Book of [Real People's] Names”? Most recommendable. You will find that a married couple was called Doctor and Doctor Doctor. Then to list but a few of the enormously weird names out there:Gaston J. Feeblebunny,Mary Louse Pantzaroff of Huron Country, OhioDr. E. Z. Filler, Dentist, Roslyn Heights, [...]
Stock markets : Tokyo vs NYSE
The Figaro newspaper on 20 March published a thorough audit of France. Very interesting if only that it doesn’t seem to scream out what is needed to change around the situation (stagnant growth, etc.). While reading the audit, I came across stats on various stock markets. Two notable facts were illustrated (source FIBV, Euronext): in [...]
Freedom — another view?
Furrowing through an old newspaper lying about (“thelondonpaper” 21 Feb 2007), I read an article entitled “Pupil loses veil battle.” This polemic subject (integrating Muslims in Western cultures) is certainly grounds for much heated debate and one feels that one has to tread very lightly. This particular situation in London involved a 12-year-old Muslim girl [...]
Ayn Rand fan club
Probably not many of us still around who love Ayn Rand, but I believe that her philosophies (determinism, objectivism…) remain appropriate and valid; even if the writing style has aged. The Fountainhead is a delightful novel and Howard Roark’s discipline and relationship with time is still applicable to today’s manic life. Atlas Shrugged is a [...]
Politics politics… give me a solution, not a criticism
At home or in business, we are always told to avoid politics (not sex and rock’n’roll fortunately). The notion of providing a solution to the problem is rarely addressed in those dangerous “political” conversations that risk getting heated. Most of the time, we are basing our point of view on what he hear about in/from [...]
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