The biggest constraint is the … government’s fear that economic opening up and reform will unleash social and political changes that will threaten political control,

The (world) has now witnessed a new administration in Washington – purportedly cognizant of all the earlier US mistakes – make those mistakes all over again,

Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis.

To talk of ‘a peaceful North Korean nuclear industry’ is to talk of an imaginary animal, like a unicorn,

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Wittingly or otherwise, the US negotiating team has executed an apparent cave-in – embracing precepts crucial to North Korean objectives but inimical to Washington’s own,

It’s a baby step,

It could be that the traders got a tiny bit of power and that was judged to be way too much.