Sunday, June 29, 2014

Assorted Links

1. Is sectarian fighting inevitable in the Middle East? Thomas Friedman says no.

2. Big changes could be coming to Japan. Would not have guessed the average age of a Japanese farmer is seventy.

3. Interesting interview with Arata Fujiwara, the other so-called "indie" star in Japanese running.

"If it is not the inexorable laws of economics that have led to America’s great divide, what is it? The straightforward answer: our policies and our politics. People get tired of hearing about Scandinavian success stories, but the fact of the matter is that Sweden, Finland and Norway have all succeeded in having about as much or faster growth in per capita incomes than the United States and with far greater equality."


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