Oxford Analytica Global Stress Points Matrix™

The Global Stress Point Matrix™ (patent applied for) provides a methodology for identifying and measuring events (stress points). It monitors the drivers and restrainers tending towards or against the event occurring. Clients may also [...]

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Mexican Tourism’s Rocky Road

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INDIA’S FOOD FAILURE
Inflation in India has shot up to 7.4%, and food prices are skyrocketing. To control prices, the government has banned the export of wheat, pulses and all rice, save the luxury basmati variety. But all those measures are at best beside the point and at worst counterproductive. The real solution is to reform [...]

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Immigration law should reflect our dynamic labor market
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by Daniel Griswold
Among its many virtues, America is a nation where laws are generally reasonable, respected and impartially enforced. A glaring [...]

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Fairness, Idealism and Other Atrocities
by P.J. O’Rourke
Well, here you are at your college graduation. And I know what you’re thinking: “Gimme the sheepskin and get me outta here!” But not so fast. First you have to listen to a commencement speech.

P.J. O’Rourke, a H.L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and a correspondent [...]

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Blame the Fed
by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.
The U.S. economy is in the midst of an old-style credit crunch brought on by a combination of bad policies and incredibly lax underwriting standards at financial institutions. The biggest policy failure was the decision by Alan Greenspan’s Federal Reserve to hold interest rates too low for too [...]

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How Barack Obama Fronted for the Most Vicious Predators on Wall Street
Obama’s Money Cartel
By PAM MARTENS
Wall Street, known variously as a barren wasteland for diversity or the last plantation in America, has defied courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for decades [...]

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Economy May Face Prolonged Pain, History Suggests
By GREG IP
The worst of the financial pain may have passed, but the economic pain could be just starting.
The nation’s financial markets have rallied since early March, with stocks up and yields on risky corporate and mortgage-backed bonds falling relative to safe U.S. Treasurys. Optimists got an added boost [...]

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Boris Johnson’s formula can inspire the Tories
As the magnitude of Labour’s defeat sinks in, the party is clinging to one hope: that, now that the spotlight of public interest is being beamed at the other side, the Conservatives will be unable to hide their flaws. Gordon Brown said as much yesterday, accepting that the [...]

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Hillary’s Bubba Bait
By Rich Lowry
When Hillary Rodham gave the commencement address at Wellesley College in 1969, extolling the virtues of “human liberation” on behalf of a restless generation of left-wing youth, did she have any idea one day she’d be the champion of old white beer-drinking Democrats everywhere?
Oh, what tangled webs [...]

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