Recent comments by Edward Campbell

• A Tale of Two Treaties

  Yup - NAFTA has done such a wonderful job of raising living standards for the poor in the American Southwest and Mexico.
  
  In your dreams.

• Obama 2.0

  Hillary is leaving, soon. Chris Hill might volunteer to return to State and take on the tasks he outlined.
  
  Sounds more than reasonable to me - and he'd be a familiar face to folks. Aside from being a reasonable, rational human being.
  
  Or Obama could appoint someone acceptable to Congress. :-]

• American Pie in the Sky

  Roubini can't make it past his 2nd sentence without a straw man. Pitiful.

• Tea Party Victory, Global Defeat

  No one ever said populism and bigotry required intelligence or education.

• The Myth of Chinese Meritocracy

  Shouldn't a professor of history be capable of reflecting upon a culture's history? A nation with a stolid history of stability being the first order of business every morning generally relies on the people they know - rather than the people who just graduated to positions of influence.
  
  That's neither a positive or negative - though the latter would be the tendency in my eyes.