While Thursday’s morning lecturer John Stropki spoke on globalization in regard to manufacturing, Friday’s speaker Fred Bergsten commented that manufacturing only makes up 10 percent of the U.S. economy. The real topic to Bergsten — and the one he spoke on — is the service industry, which makes up 80 percent.
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Stropki: Chinese economic growth means global economic growth
August 11, 2011
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In today’s economic climate, success stories in the business world range from creative geniuses thinking up that perfect invention to investors funding that risky venture.
John Stropki’s story is more traditional than that.
Read more McLean: For economy’s future, everyone needs to take responsibility
August 10, 2011
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Though Fortune magazine had named Enron its most innovative company for seven years, Enron stock short-seller Jim Chanos couldn’t figure out how it earned all its money. Chanos called up Fortune writer Bethany McLean.
“Can you explain how Enron makes its money?” Chanos asked her.
Read more Koskinen: Housing market is cause and hope in economic crisis
August 8, 2011
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Monday’s morning lecture series speaker John Koskinen quoted Winston Churchill in saying, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing — after they’ve tried everything else.”
Read more Mousavian: Iranian nuclear program is matter of consensus, pride
August 5, 2011
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The final lecture of Week Six’s topic, “Iran: From Ancient Persia to Middle East Powder Keg,” featured Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who said, like many other lecturers this week, that the Iranian nuclear weapons conflict could be peacefully solved with the application of diplomacy, negotiation and compromise.
Read more Farhi: Political-religious compromise will solve Iran’s problems
August 4, 2011
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Farideh Farhi, while working for the International Crisis Group in 2006, attended a women’s demonstration in Iran for equal rights.
The Bush administration had recently given about $18 million to various civil society organizations in Iran, pushing for equal rights. The Iranian government viewed these funds as “regime-change money.”
Read more Burns: Compromise is key to U.S.-Iran relations
August 3, 2011
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Retired diplomat Nicholas Burns believes there are three basic choices the U.S. could make in foreign policy regarding Iran. The first two, he said, are so “absurd” that they shouldn’t be taken seriously. The third, though, is the path he believes in, because it’s “practical and right in the middle.”
Read more Nafisi: ‘Freedom is not Eastern or Western: Freedom is global’
August 2, 2011
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In the face of Ayatollah Khomeini’s ultra-conservative regime, Azar Nafisi showed resolve. She had spent much of her life outside of Iran, studying English and American literature. Thus, as Khomeini enacted laws to limit women’s rights, Nafisi became quite outspoken.
Read more Wright: Protests and reform are quite common in Iran
August 1, 2011
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The Iranian presidential election of 2009 is under heavy scrutiny. Somehow, the government was able to count up paper ballots in a single day, ending with a 64 percent win for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Read more Brazile: Compromise is the way to success
July 29, 2011
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Photo | Ellie Haugsby Veteran political strategist Donna Brazile speaks during Friday’s morning lecture in the Amphitheater. Nick Glunt | Staff Writer Donna Brazile’s sister Sheila, who had suffered from a benign yet mentally debilitating brain tumor, lived in Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. Sheila, as Brazile said, had the mental capacity of [...]
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