I am sharing my latest work on security challenges in Trinidad and Tobago, based on interviews with security experts in the country during my recent trip to Port of Spain. This report originally appeared in Global Americans.

From August 24-31, 2017, I had the opportunity to travel to Trinidad and Tobago, just off the north coast of South America, to speak with defense and security experts regarding the challenges facing their country and the work of the government to confront them.

This report was originally published by NEWSMAX.

Cancer has been humanity’s most persistent nemesis. Bone fragments and written records indicate that cancer afflicted people in ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. Today, cancer is America’s second leading killer, closing in on heart disease. It accounts for one quarter of U.S. deaths. [1]

This is my keynote address to a Workshop on Federal Relations and Tax Reform hosted by the University of Adelaide’s School of Economics, in Adelaide on 29th August. Download the full presentation here.

Sky-rocketing drug prices have captured the nation’s attention. President Trump echoes Senator Bernie Sanders when he asserts that drug companies are “getting away with murder.”[1] Republican and Democratic legislators alike assert that the pharmaceutical industry engages in price-fixing and advocate that Medicare should negotiate directly with drug manufacturers to lower costs.

More than 50 people showed up on a lovely late-summer Chicago evening to listen to me and two panelists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago talk about “Mobile Payments: Looking Back, Looking Forward.” We were thrilled at the turnout, as was co-sponsor FinTank.

In the first of what will be an ongoing series, participants got a sense of the development of mobile payments in the United States today, including:

√ The challenges of two-sided markets or networks and the institutional and financial forces that inhibit change

This year, Japan’s governance reform drive will either keep going, or run out of steam. Judging from the amendment of the Company Law that is now underway by an advisory council of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), the latter is likely.

Strikingly absent is a clear over-arching vision of the most important themes that amendment of the Company Law should address now that the country has a corporate governance code. In other words, what is missing, that can only be addressed via the Company Law?

The Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City's annual economic symposium has begun in Jackson Hole this evening. The agenda for this year's meeting "Fostering a Dynamic Global Economy" has just become available and may be found here. 

Sky-rocketing drug prices have captured the nation’s attention. President Trump echoes Senator Bernie Sanders when he asserts that drug companies are “getting away with murder.”[1] Republican and Democratic legislators alike assert that the pharmaceutical industry engages in price-fixing and advocate that Medicare should negotiate directly with drug manufacturers to lower costs.