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• Obama Rewrites the Law

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• Anyone? Anyone? Smoot-Hawley?

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Article source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-ice-is-melting/article/2002764

It’s one year late for his centenary but this is proving to be a golden time for Arthur Miller. New York has seen acclaimed revivals of The Crucible and A View from the Bridge. Now, up here, we have Miller productions from Soulpepper and Stratford, both of them outstanding.

Incident at Vichy
Soulpepper Theatre

Soulpepper’s choice is a rare one: Incident at Vichy, a 1964 play that was gripping when new and mesmerizing now. Alan Dilworth’s production starts with the sound of a train: a terrifying noise because it’s 1942 and we’re in the supposedly “free” section of occupied France. Ten men sit in a line on a bench in a featureless room, all of them brought there by police working, it seems, in perfect concord. None of them knows why they have been caught in this dragnet; they try to tell themselves that it’s a random check-up but they can’t help fearing that they have been picked up because of the way they look, the way they sound. Most of them are Jewish. A few have heard of what is going on in the rest of Europe. They know what the trains are carrying, and where they’re going.

The play is unashamedly schematic. Its first part is a discussion between those who know or guess the worst and those who are in denial, trying to believe that they will be all right if their papers are in order. The audience of course knows the terrible truth, but this hardly lessens the

Article source: http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/on-stage/outstanding-productions-of-incident-at-vichy-and-all-my-sons-honour-the-memory-of-arthur-miller

Important Deal for Boeing Stock

During the month of May, Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) received orders for 268 new airplanes. As of the end of April, the company delivered 230 planes. This puts it ahead of its rival Airbus. However, while Boeing stock has recovered nicely since its February dip, it’s still down 8.34% year-to-date. Having said that, now is not the time to be holding back on Boeing stock.

In fact, a potentially historic deal with Iran Air is in the works, suggesting Boeing stock could surge sometime before the end of 2016. Investors interested in Boeing should take advantage of this deal before the big shots sign it. You may not like Iran, but you should want Boeing—one of America’s top exporters and a real symbol of U.S. knowhow—to succeed.

The last time Iran Air made a deal of this size, the airplane manufacturer involved surged. That manufacturer was Airbus.

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In November of 2015, Airbus shares hit an all-time record. The European consortium signed a deal for more than 100 planes—wide- and narrow-body—with Iran Air for some $25.0 billion. Iran Air is starving for new equipment after three decades of sanctions.

I believe Boeing stock can expect a greater jump than Airbus. Certainly, given the political baggage and the enormity of the dollar amount involved this time, Boeing and Iran will want to move quickly before the U.S. presidential election concludes.

Meanwhile,

Article source: http://www.profitconfidential.com/stock/boeing-co-if-this-happens-boeing-stock-could-soar/

CAMBRIDGE – We seem to be living in an accelerated age of revolutionary technological breakthroughs. Barely a day passes without the announcement of some major new development in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digitization, or automation. Yet those who are supposed to know where it is all taking us can’t make up their minds.

At one end of the spectrum are the techno-optimists, who believe we are on the cusp of a new era in which the world’s living standards will rise more rapidly than ever. At the other end are the techno-pessimists, who see disappointing productivity statistics and argue that the new technologies’ economy-wide benefits will remain limited. Then there are those – the techno-worriers? – who agree with the optimists about the scale and scope of innovation but fret about the adverse implications for employment or equity.

What distinguishes these perspectives from one another is not so much disagreement about the rate of technological innovation. After all, who can seriously doubt that innovation is progressing rapidly? The debate is about whether these innovations will remain bottled up in a few tech-intensive sectors that employ the highest-skilled professionals and account for a relatively small share of GDP, or spread

Article source: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/innovation-impact-on-productivity-by-dani-rodrik-2016-06

The manufacturing of satellites is about to get an overhaul: Space Age, meet the assembly line.

Satellites have always relied on highly customized, by-hand procedures that have slowed production and kept their costs sky high. But now proponents of faster, cheaper methods envision bringing together standardized, pretested modular components and sidestepping some of the painstaking testing for which over the years U.S. aerospace has become famous.

The driving force behind the change is U.S. entrepreneur Greg Wyler, who has teamed up with European aerospace powerhouse Airbus Group SE
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Article source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-build-satellites-much-fasterand-cheaper-1465351261