Day: November 23, 2009

Big Spender Meets Big Saver

by Adrian Ineichen The Great Contrast Recently, President Obama travelled to Asia and visited Japan, the APEC summit in Singapore and went to China and Korea. The contrasts were stark, particularly in China: here comes the representative of the world’s most powerful democracy whose people save on average 3% of their disposable income (at some […]

Why Not in Their Backyard? Smart Choices Abroad for Releasing Guantanámo Bay Prisoners

by Alexander Metelitsa On January 22, 2009, President Obama signed executive orders to shut down the Guantanámo Bay terrorist detention center within a year. Soon after, he established the Guantanámo Detainee Review Interagency Task Force to determine which Guantanamo captives can be prosecuted in the U.S. justice system, which can be released, and whether any captives […]