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Trump used Twitter, in addition to his mastery of cable television, to leap over the heads of staff and the press and drive the public agenda during the campaign.
But, as a device to communicate with his base and keep attention focused on himself, government by Twitter has allowed him to appeal over the heads of Congress and the press.
So, only days after the eurozone’s heads of state and government congratulated themselves on their summit success, the concept of coordination was shown to be meaningless for the one country where coordination matters most.
ALMA – a coalition of 49 African heads of state and government working to eliminate malaria by 2030 – aims to advance precisely such cooperation, by focusing on accountability and action at the national, regional, and global levels.
African heads of state have personally launched polio campaigns synchronized across several countries, vaccinating tens of millions of children over a few days.
That’s why cooler heads are likely to prevail.
But the real significance of the meeting may turn out to be, not the limited decisions which the heads of government are able and willing to take this time round, but the opening up, virtually for the first time, of serious discussion about the future direction of the European Union.
CAMBRIDGE – After nine dreary years of downgrading their GDP forecasts, macroeconomic policymakers around the world are shaking their heads in disbelief: Despite a populist-propelled wave of political tumult, global growth is actually set to outperform expectations in 2017.
The value is in people’s heads – in the meanings of the words and the brand associations – not in the expanded namespace.
The only shortage is a shortage of space in people’s heads.
One idea, in particular, has attracted a lot of attention in the press, mostly because it comes from Lou Jiwei, a former minister of finance who now heads the National Council for Social Security Fund, China’s national pension fund.
That is the purpose behind the Global Ocean Commission, an independent international body comprising former heads of state, ministers, and business leaders.
The heads of member states’ governments agreed in principle to limit future fiscal deficits by seeking constitutional changes in their countries that would ensure balanced budgets.
Instead, the power of the press is used to turn traditional value systems on their heads – to make the irrelevant seem essential and the trivial titillating.
Obama has sought, with some success, to marshal a multinational coalition to confront the Islamic State; most important, he has induced cooperation from countries in the region that, afraid to speak and act clearly, had hoped that putting their heads in the sand would make the threat go away.
The basic problem lies in the fact that the heritage of communism is a much greater burden than the majority of people, including experts, ever imagined, and was much more about the inheritance in people's heads than the inherited economic structure.
With a neat twist of logic, our cognitive imperfections are turned on their heads, and made to work to achieve System-II choices.
But, today, talking heads on television would rather attack those with expertise in these areas.
Heads of cabinet and their staffs act as sensitive political antennae and as information filters, so the tally of German nationals in such positions attracts close attention and much speculation among Brussels insiders.
But counting heads in the EU institutions does not give the full picture of Germany’s ascendancy.
When heads of state convene at the UN next September, the world’s leading engineers should greet them with a cutting-edge framework for global action.
So he and Giscard created the European Council (composed of the heads of Europe’s governments), which is now a major player in the European Union’s institutional set-up.
Cool heads must prevail.
So the heads of our democracies are treated like a famous person living next door.
But I also suspect that their heads are cautioning against spending a lot of money in an attempt to accomplish a difficult, if not impossible, task.
The same is true of orthodox Jewish women who must shave their heads and wear wigs when they marry.
There are relatively new heads of state in the US, France, and the United Kingdom;German leaders still have not formed a governing coalition since the general election in September; and the US Federal Reserve has a new chair awaiting confirmation.
The government could, for example, double welfare payments to households whose male heads stay home, threaten to revoke land reform rights after years of absence in rural communities, and establish choke points on highways at the Tehuantepec Isthmus.
As the US Congress heads home for the holidays, there’s a sense that something ominous lies over the horizon.
Indeed, they should agree on a common policy stance at one of the myriad formal and informal meetings of eurozone heads of state and finance ministers.
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