Retirement letter from Google’s CFO Patrick Pichette After nearly 7 years as CFO, I will be retiring from Google to spend more time with my family. Yeah, I know you’ve heard that line before. We give a lot to our jobs. I certainly did. And while I am not looking for sympathy, I want to […]

Photo: Xinhua/Zuma Press The Coming Chinese Crackup The endgame of communist rule in China has begun, and Xi Jinping’s ruthless measures are only bringing the country closer to a breaking point By David Shambaugh March 6, 2015 11:26 a.m. ET On Thursday, the National People’s Congress convened in Beijing in what has become a familiar […]

Photo: Associated Press China’s Liquidity Is Being Roto-Rootered.. Liquidity evaporates in China as ‘fiscal cliff’ nears Unless China changes course, it is set to
tighten fiscal policy by 5.5pc of GDP this
year, five times Britain’s austerity dose
annually since the Lehman crisis By: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard March 4, 2015 The International Monetary Fund says China’s budget deficit topped […]

THE CIA CAMPAIGN TO STEAL APPLE’S SECRETS BY JEREMY SCAHILL AND JOSH BEGLEY @jeremyscahill@joshbegley TODAY March 10 2015 AT 12:35 AM RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s IPHONES and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained by The Intercept. The security researchers presented […]

DANISH WIND FARM COMPANY SUED FOR SPOILING VIEW by DAVID ATHERTON 12 Sep 2014 Europe’s troubled wind turbine industry has a new predicament, with a householder in Denmark successfully suing Vestas, a Danish wind turbine manufacturer. Vestas was sued by the householder with the help of International Law Office and awarded 500,000 Danish kroner (£53,000) […]

Thomas Piketty on the Euro Zone:’We Have Created a Monster’ March 10, 2015 – 04:06 PM Interview by Julia Amalia Heyer and Christoph Pauly In an interview with SPIEGEL, celebrated French economist Thomas Piketty speaks about Alexis Tsipras’ election victory in Greece, Europe’s inability to fix its financial woes and what EU leaders can learn […]

Photo: Lars Mensel Implications of The Third Industrial Revolution 25.02.2015 “We are glimpsing at the outlines of a new economic system” Economist and bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin argues that our grandchildren will pity our working conditions and that a bright future is not a utopian dream but an achievable goal. The European: Mr. Rifkin, the […]

Photo: Private photo William Deresiewicz on American Higher Education 06.03.2015 The current competition to get into one of America’s elite universities is designed to produce only “excellent sheep”. Ben Hill spoke with former Yale professor and best-selling author Bill Deresiewicz about what has gone wrong with America’s top schools and what can be done to […]

The American: How Green Is Europe? Summary: trueHUEnews staff October11, 2014: Despite claims to the contrary Europe has far to go when it comes to renewables and to meeting EU green energy targets.  Consulting the annual BP World Energy Review statistics shows that the share of EU’s renewables was at 11.5 percent in 2013 and at […]

Spiegel: Germany’s Disarmed Forces Ramshackle Military at Odds with Global Aspirations Summary: by trueHUEnews staff October 11, 2014:   The German government has reduced the budget for the armed forces by €400 million ($504 million) to €32.8 billion. Spending on the military is expected to drop to €32.1 billion next year. A recent NATO ranking showed […]