I ran across a number of articles that helped me understand what is going on in Syria and why so many countries are involved. Here are couple articles that give a good background. January, 2011 – Assad announces a ‘Four Seas Policy’ (www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/01/06/Syrias-Assad-pushes-Four-Seas-Strategy/UPI-98471294335880/). This is designed to make Syria and Turkey the regional hub for […]
From a purely strategic point of view, I think the Paul Ryan pick makes sense for the Republicans. If they can get the public to buy in to Paul Ryan being the ‘man with a plan’ and contrast it with the image of a do nothing congress, it might energize swing voters / Reagan democrats. […]
I was intrigued when Yahoo (YHOO) named Marissa Mayer CEO a few weeks ago – I think thats a real ‘out of the box’ pick that few companies would do. It seems most CEO hires are retreads of the same people. So I got to wondering what Yahoo is up to. I hadn’t given Yahoo much […]