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the bottom four-fifths of the income spectrum earned nearly 60% of total labor income

strengthening the labor force's capacity to cope with new technologies.

Compared to 10 Years Ago, USA is Losing Competitiveness at the Margin vs. lts Peers e McKinsey conducted a study in 2010 that compares the USA with other countries on 20 attributes related to economic fundamentals, business climate, human capital and infrastructure. McKinsey co...

… with technical help from North Korea and funding from Iran, were building a nuclear reactor. I had got to know Olmert fairly well over the years, initially when I was in the kirya and both he and another rising Likud politician to whom I became closer, Dan Meridor, were members...

heart of Tel Aviv. He was worried that not enough people would show up, and that those who did would be from the left: Meretz, not Labor, people who would be there mainly to criticize him for not going far, or quickly, enough in pulling out of the West Bank. In the end, he was p...

because we were people with whom Rabin felt comfortable — a counterpoint, I suspect, to the old Labor Party rival whom he had made Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres. Though the two men had grown to respect each another over the years, Rabin neither trusted, nor much liked, Shimon. I...

“INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science,...

/ BARAK / 111 Brigade” — struck wherever they could inflict the most terror, and death: at bus stations, on buses, in shopping centers, restaurants and cafés. Over a 12-month period, beginning with a bombing of Tel Aviv’s main bus station at the beginning of January 2003, they m...

Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...

politics and vowing to defeat Labor, Bibi had seized on Oslo I to accuse Rabin of “surrendering” to Arafat, and by extension to Hamas terrorism. I couldn’t sleep the night before the cabinet meeting. I had no desire to be disloyal to Yitzhak. I certainly didn’t want to add to th...

Korea’s nuclear program and missile launches go unchecked. There is rising risk of military incidents—or accidents—in the South China Sea and across the Taiwan Strait. China is the most likely source of global economic shocks over the next two to three years. The country’s lead...

…ries would not only hold elections, but that their elections would meet international standards and be judged “free and fair.” There was also an expectation that political parties would be able to compete on a reasonably level playing field, that opposition leaders would not be h...

…minority neighborhoods, for example, has been criticized as depriving African American victims and communities of their fair share of government protection from criminal harm. ? In earlier eras, law enforcement inattention to, or wholesale neglect [*845] of, white offenders' vict...

…hat any successful Arab model in economic development invites such negative treatment in the international media To be fair, we read recently a few balanced articles reporting on what is the UAE doing regarding the effect of the global financial crisis on our region. Al Hayat N...

… Despite the recent rally, emerging market currencies remain undervalued against the US dollar. Average Deviation from Fair Value vs. US Dollar (%) 20 4 EM Currencies Overvalued on Average “25 2008 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013-2014 =. 2015 2016 Data through November 30, 2016. No...