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Get email notification for articles from Hilo Glazer Follow Apr. 29, 2021 6:42 PM Danny Pearlman knew right off why the cluster of local teenagers was so eager to have their photograph taken with him and his friends. “The whole encounter had the feel of ‘Look at the new animals in the zoo,’” Pearlman relates. “They obviously wanted pictures taken that showed us as ridiculous, so they could laugh at the new weirdos in town. There was some pushing over who would be first to have their photo taken, but I didn’t experience it as a frightening or humiliating situation. I saw that they...

A rethink of the term ‘emerging markets’ is long overdue. It has always been a catch-all category but the gap between the description and reality is becoming over-stretched. Consider, for example, how South Korea and Taiwan are still routinely described as emerging markets. Indeed, they each account for more than 13% of the MSCI Emerging Markets index (see p67). Set this against the number of technologically advanced devices from Samsung Electronics (a South Korean company) used worldwide. Or how the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is one of the largest advanced comput...

What areas within the increasingly bitter conflict between China and the West are most likely to hit asset owners? The obvious examples include the US blacklist on investment in selected Chinese equities and tightening controls on investment by Chinese firms into Europe and the US. These, after all, are the current focus of the dispute.  But such a view, although understandable, fails to grasp the dynamics of international conflict. Disputes over economic matters, although troublesome, are generally amendable to compromise. In contrast, disagreements over what could be called cultural matter...

Domestic challenges and US political developments have proved such a preoccupation recently that it has been all too easy to miss a key global shift. China’s rise to global prominence has accelerated markedly as a result of the past year’s events. This is not to blame Europeans for underestimating the transition. To put it mildly they have had to contend with immense domestic difficulties. At the same time, the bizarre spectacle of the US presidential transition has proved a compelling distraction. Yet looking eastwards it should be clear that the world is approaching an inflection point....

another wonderful book about andrew johnson's impeachment, one of the great trials of american history. and we are happy to have him here at the public library talking about that. now we are doubly happy, and doubly happy to have them here with "american emperor" his wonderful book about aaron burr and the various conspiracies that deal with alexander hamilton, the alleged attempt to separate from the united states to western part of the united states and the great trial presided over by john marshall. is also there is an event in the book that i think you need to read about, page 67...