By Richard Epstein - July 30, 2013 This past week in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama gave his first speech on his plans to reinvigorate a still stalled economy at Knox College. The speech itself received little press coverage—so little, in fact, that the Sunday New York Times ran a puff-piece on it to build interest in his next speech—on a similar topic—scheduled for Tuesday, July 30 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In these speeches, the president is using the bully pulpit to argue for redistributive, pro-regulatory, pro-union policies that he claims will serve the middle class.
ABUJA, Nigeria, May 8, 2014/ -- Rasilimali za Afrika zenye utajiri mwingi zinatoa nafasi ya kipekee ya ufanisi katika uimarishaji wa maisha ya raia wa Afrika, yasema ripoti mpya kubwa iliyozinduliwa leo na Kofi Annan, Katibu Mkuu wa zamani wa Umoja wa Mataifa, lakini mara nyingi sana rasilimali hizi huporwa na maafisa wafisadi pamoja na wawekezaji wa kigeni. Aidha, Ripoti hii inaonyesha kwamba kuongezeka kwa ukosefu wa usawa vilevile kunaizuia Afrika isiikamate nafasi hii ya maendeleo.