Updated: 11/10/09 7:00 AM
WASHINGTON—When Nouriel Roubini talks, the world listens. Roubini is, of course, the once-obscure New York University economist whose dire warnings about a financial crisis proved depressingly prophetic. Last week, Roubini was shouting. Writing in The Financial Times, he warned that the Federal Reserve and other government central banks are fueling a massive new asset “bubble” that—while not in imminent danger of bursting—will someday do so with calamitous consequences.
Updated: 11/10/09 7:00 AM
We don’t know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid- ’90s, and it’s unlikely he’ll be able to tell us anytime soon. He’s in jail in Maricopa County, Ariz., at this writing, in lieu of a $5 million cash bond. It hardly seems farfetched, however, to suppose he emigrated from his native Iraq for the same reason immigrants typically seek these shores: America promises opportunity and freedom.
Updated: 11/10/09 7:00 AM
WASHINGTON — The Iranians have a word they use to describe a political impasse. They speak of it as a bombast, which means a dead-end street, or a knot that can’t be untied. That’s a good description of the deadlocked debate in Tehran over the nuclear issue.
Updated: 11/09/09 9:08 AM
BOSTON — It’s been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. “This is a doctor,” she said, pointing to one picture. “This is a teacher.” It was impossible to tell one woman from another under the burqas enforced by their Taliban rulers.
Updated: 11/10/09 7:00 AM
One Western New York family, two heroes wounded in action, two Purple Hearts, two different wars at two very different times in our history. Parallel circumstances decades apart resulted in the creation of a bond of brotherhood between an uncle and his nephew.
Updated: 11/10/09 7:00 AM
I’m proud to be the president of a union that prides itself on being democratic and advocacy driven. So, while I disagree with the accuracy and much of what the local leaders at Charter School for Applied Technologies wrote about New York State United Teachers and charter schools in the Nov. 4 Another Voice column, I support their advocacy for charter schools within our democratic union.
