The speech just showed that Lula is weak and he doesn't know how to punish his friends.

The speech just showed that Lula is weak and he doesn't know how punish his friends.

Bush mentioned shared strategic interests three times in his speech. The Chinese see this as important because it's high- level recognition from the global superpower of their status as a rising great power.

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

As we try to achieve perfection, society changes and we just become more imperfect

It isn't a free speech issue; it's a matter of public decency.