The Korea Herald

Investors need to check what they’re buying

Jan 5, 2011

Housing prices are sliding again, and there is plenty of blame to go around. Factors include the sluggish recovery, ineffective private and public efforts to prevent foreclosures, suddenly risk-avers...
[Bob Ray Sanders] Talking frankly about planning for end-of-life decisions

Jan 5, 2011

“You come into this world on the way out.” All my life, I have heard that axiom. Even as a child, I understood it meant I would die. Of course, as a youngster, I assumed that day would be many years...
[David Ignatius] Is the U.S. economic engine repaired?

Jan 5, 2011

WASHINGTON ― “We have magneto trouble. How, then, can we start up again?” mused John Maynard Keynes in December 1930, likening the stagnant economy of the Great Depression to a broken generator in an...
[Doyle McManus] The upward mobility gap widening in the U.S.

Jan 5, 2011

Here’s a familiar fact: Economic inequality is rising in the United States. The rich have gotten richer, the poor have stayed poor, and families in the middle have seen their incomes stagnate. Here’...
[Trudy Rubin] Areas to watch for progress in 2011

Jan 5, 2011

I hope that 2011 will provide better foreign policy stories than 2010 did. Consider this woeful litany: The continuing fighting in Afghanistan, the jihadis and floods of Pakistan, a recovering but d...
[Sanjeev Sanyal] India’s elites in legitimacy crisis amid series of scandals

Jan 5, 2011

NEW DELHI ― For a country with 1.2 billion people, India is ruled by a surprisingly small elite, which runs everything from the government to large companies and even sports bodies. But a series of s...
No more agonizing over same-sex marriage

Jan 4, 2011

We can’t peer into President Obama’s soul, but his statement last week that he is “struggling” with whether to endorse same-sex marriage is open to an unedifying interpretation. Given the president’s...
Top universities may reopen door to ROTC

Jan 4, 2011

With his signature last week, President Obama ended the military’s distasteful policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In doing away with this discriminatory practice, he also ushered the American armed f...
[Kevin Hassett] Snowplow slowdowns might become American way

Jan 4, 2011

Europeans have grown accustomed to seeing government workers shut down their countries when provoked. At this time of huge deficits from Washington to the smallest towns, government workers in the U....
[Peter Singer] Helping people attain their resolutions

Jan 4, 2011

MELBOURNE ― Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New Year’s resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know that it would be better for us to lose weight, o...
[Trudy Rubin] Russia: ‘Rule of law’ or ‘dictatorship of law’

Jan 4, 2011

When Dmitry Medvedev became president of Russia two years ago he pledged to combat “legal nihilism,” the disrespect for law that feeds corruption and backwardness in his country. Any hope that Medve...
[Matthew Lynn] Biggest financial decision in 2011 is European

Jan 4, 2011

What’s the biggest financial decision facing Europe in 2011? Easy. The choice of a new president of the European Central Bank. When Jean-Claude Trichet steps down from the post in October, the leadi...
[Kim Seong-kon] Our hopes in the Year of the Rabbit

Jan 4, 2011

The Year of the Rabbit is especially meaningful to Korean people. For example, the rabbit symbolizes the destiny of Korea located among historically aggressive countries. We believe the Korean Penins...
Overcoming year of political disappointment

Jan 3, 2011

The past year was one of political disappointment in Japan as the government failed to make breakthroughs in resolving crucial economic and diplomatic problems. Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the Democ...
[Jacob S. Hacker and Daniel Markovits] Giving Pledge campaign for commoners

Jan 3, 2011

The tax bill passed last month perpetuates the huge unfunded giveaways to the rich that have for a generation increasingly divided our nation. Rebuilding the American middle class requires tackling t...