Two obvious and urgent constitutional amendments that cannot be deferred any longer, stemming from the reality check that Trump has unwittingly called for at this time of American political, social, and economic chaos he has wrought, are first, the limitation of independent presidential action, and second, the necessity, and obligation, for presidential accountability, not only politically, but legally.



https://www.academia.edu/37655172/FACEBOOK_-_On_the_contradictions_and_perils_of_Trumps_presidency_-_2017051704



https://www.academia.edu/37649195/FACEBOOK_-_A_Short_Recipe_for_Solving_the_President_Elects_Conflicts_of_Interest_-_2016120101



Al Capone would have been very happy at the kind of governance being exercised at the top tiers in the U.S. since the end of the Obama administration. It's like the Pied Piper in reverse has returned from La La Land, sans the children, ushering in the rats instead of disposing of them. Indescribable lunacy is enveloping, nay, swamping, the land, and promoting WWIII, at the very worst time in decades.



https://www.academia.edu/37644649/The_New_York_Times_-_My_Opinion_on_The_Presidents_Self_Destructive_Disruption_-_2017101101



It is crucial that NO FIRST Military Strike -whether Nuclear or Conventional, even if Preemptive- ever be conducted by the United States without prior Congressional Approval, which could, of course, be secretly given, especially if Preemptive, but immediately disclosed Upon the Strike. And, in looking for a culprit, it must be acknowledged that, clearly, the basically unfettered capitalism of today is a failed socioeconomic system that is exterminating the poor and enriching the rich at an increasing pace and will lead in short order to civil unrest, and soon after, to global revolt, warfare and total social chaos. This perverse result is built into the system given the unbalanced, unfair, and self-reinforcing upward-flow nature of its income and wealth distribution system in society which cannot and will not be contained through the simplistic and shortsighted solutions offered by the progressive taxation systems implemented today.



https://www.academia.edu/37540637/The_New_York_Times_and_Truthout_-_My_opinion_on_Fire_and_Fury_and_Capitalism_in_Crisis_-_2017080901



Extreme, and even simply visible inequality, however stable or variable, is indeed the most threatening problem facing humanity today, and will likely remain one even if and when it is finally tamed, and reduced, unless harnessed, and constructively exploited, for the common good, given that due to its different but obvious degrees of unfairness and material and emotional impact, as the case may be, penetrating of all social goals and aspirations, it will always constitute a negative motivational value, capable of dangerously inflaming the affected layers of society, when perceived as fixed and immutable, which will likely always be the case for a significant minority of the have nots, much like the common star gazer of all times has perceived them.



https://www.academia.edu/37590896/PROJECT_SYNDICATE_-_INEQUALITY_-_2017120801



Bill Clinton's Straight Talk on Lagging U.S. Economy: Former President Bill Clinton says the American dream "has been under assault for 30 years" while speaking about jobs and the economy at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting. Listen carefully, twice, to what the President has to say, and then think carefully about what could be done to lend impulse to the American economy and the economy of The Americas.



https://www.academia.edu/37288387/OFA_-_How_to_Lend_Impulse_to_The_American_Economy_and_The_Economy_of_The_Americas_-_2011091902



The question is this: What is the U.S. able and willing to do to assist economic, social, and political development in nations such as Peru, in its own back yard, where the fruits of economic growth have not reached the very poor despite twenty years of political stability and ten years of rapid economic growth, to prevent them from slipping back into a not too distant past of extreme social violence, and instead foster economic, social and political development in the American Hemisphere as a whole?



https://www.academia.edu/37265927/HUFFINGTON_POST_-_The_question_that_should_be_answered_with_action_by_the_United_States_of_America_-_2011041201



That the "Recent stock market sell-off foreshadows a new Great Recession" in the U.S. as foreseen by professors Steven Pressman of Colorado State University and Robert H. Scott III of Monmouth University in their article of March 19, 2018 in THE CONVERSATION, may very well be. The question is, what can be done to prevent it, or to stem it, where, how, and on what scale? In my view, the world can no longer solve its most pressing problems -threatening anthropogenic climate disruption and global warming and universal income polarization with extreme inequality- on a piecemeal, national, and country by country basis, when the world's real economies -the U.S., China, the EU, and Russia- are globalized. Clearly, acceleration of socioeconomic inclusion and concerted investment for development to make it possible must be envisioned and constructed on a global scale without further delay. At the crux of world peace, and planetary rescue, would be tax reform, via Sole Consumption Tax (SCT), that would enable eradication of absolute extreme poverty and relative extreme poverty, through regular income redistribution ensuring the attainment of autonomous survival with increasing welfare potential for the poorest, that would irreversibly approach that of the richest, voluntary population stabilization, voluntary production and consumption stabilization, and carbon emissions stabilization.



https://www.academia.edu/36677672/PROJECT_SYNDICATE_-_Should_We_Really_Care_About_Inequality_-_My_comment_2018041801



The key threat built into the rapid climate change, particularly of global warming, whatever its causes, is that different species will evolve to adapt at different rates, and thus, many will rapidly become extinct, unable to cope and survive in a new state, as new species in fact, and others will exponentially thrive. Mankind may very well perish as a direct result of this phenomenon, or as a consequent result of nuclear war induced by it in the struggle for survival within and between nations. This must be prevented to the extent possible though global cooperation for the full application of science and government, much as intended in the UN-sponsored Paris Accord of 2015. Its dismantlement would be a clear hallmark of insanity.



https://www.academia.edu/36674660/LIVING_IN_PERU_-_Sernanp_will_promote_the_sale_of_carbon_bonds_to_tourists_-_My_comments_-_2018051701



Clearly the basically unfettered capitalism of today is a failed socioeconomic system that is exterminating the poor and enriching the rich at an increasing pace and will lead in short order to civil unrest, and soon after, to global revolt, warfare and total social chaos. This perverse result is built into the system given the unbalanced, unfair, and self-reinforcing upward-flow nature of its income and wealth distribution system in society which cannot and will not be contained through the simplistic and shortsighted solutions offered by the progressive taxation systems implemented today. A cursory analytical look at Thomas Piketty's Thesis clearly suggests that the intrinsic nature of Capitalism ensures that the rich will get richer and the poor poorer, ad infinitum, till annihilation of the poorest, in any society in any country, unless taxation through a Sole Consumption Tax (SCT) is used to regularly redistribute the wealth created in all societies, within societies, in such a way as to preempt consumption by the poorest from falling below the threshold of autonomous survival with monotonically increasing welfare potential, that would bring their share of wealth consumption irreversibly and asymptotically closer to consumption by the richest of the rich over time.



https://www.academia.edu/36314694/BUZZFLASH_-_Thieves_in_the_Suites_-_Todays_Captains_of_Corporate_Capitalism_-_My_comments_-_2018032701



Extreme, and even simply visible inequality, however stable or variable, is indeed the most threatening problem facing humanity today, and will likely remain one even if and when it is finally tamed, and reduced, unless harnessed, and constructively exploited, for the common good, given that due to its different but obvious degrees of unfairness and material and emotional impact, as the case may be, penetrating of all social goals and aspirations, it will always constitute a negative motivational value, capable of dangerously inflaming the affected layers of society, when perceived as fixed and immutable, which will likely always be the case for a significant minority of the have nots, much like the common star gazer of all times has perceived them.



https://www.academia.edu/35598052/PROJECT_SYNDICATE_-_Comment_-_Populist_Plutocracy_and_the_Future_of_America_-_Rudderless_Leadership_-_2017121701



Disrupting or dismantling working domestic or international financial, economic, or legal institutions, systems, or treaties, that have held the world together for seventy years, and purport to do so indefinitely, without having a clue as to what would take their place, simply because someone feels the impulse to leave his mark in history, would have been unthinkable a year ago. Opting out of the world's largest trading accord, which remains very sound, having been extremely successful, for some sixty years, based on magic thinking, at best, and perhaps merely to gain political notoriety, instead of reforming or restructuring it from within, would also have been considered patently absurd, till less than two years ago.



https://www.academia.edu/34448122/PROJECT_SYNDICATE_-_Saving_the_International_Economic_Order_-_My_Comment_-_Crossroads_Between_Old_and_New_-_2017090201



A fair minimum wage of USD 32.32 would yield an annual income of USD 67,225.60, not considering any overtime, which of course would follow given the nature of the employment under consideration. This level of income, compared to, say, USD 20,800.00 per year at USD 10.00 an hour, with no overtime pay, in today's American minimum wage empire, which has enslaved the working class, would seem unreasonable, even absurd to many in the unwitting middle class, and, according to the prevailing attitude, insane to most leaders in the corporate world.



https://www.academia.edu/28686601/TRUTHOUT_-_The_solid_wall_between_the_1_and_the_working_poor_in_the_USA_The_perverse_and_persisting_conundrum_of_the_minimum_wage_-_2016041802



If happiness, which I understand as the ultímate goal of social progress, were equivalent to personal well being, and personal well being were equivalent to personal wealth, and personal wealth were equivalent to social status, the Social Progress Index (SPI) would be highly relevant to the pursuit of social progress, provided it would measure changes in social status over time, which it does not. Were it thus, social progress would be achievable in terms of the SPI provided the goals for improvement were reasonable over time. All this, to the extent that the SPI were indeed a national average of the self-assessed index of satisfaction with personal well being by the man on the street, by people at large, a happiness index as it were, as the SPI indicators would seem to reﬂect states of personal wealth, but only at speciﬁc points in time.



https://www.academia.edu/18040396/LIVING_IN_PERU_-_Uses_and_Limitations_of_Michael_Greene_s_Social_Progress_Index_SPI_for_Development_-_2015102202



The world the baby boomer generation's grandparents knew as children has been obliterated by a century of recurring monstrous wars, concurrent with exponentially increasing revolutionary scientific and technological discoveries and inventions, and massive economic, social, political, and legal changes which for many signify development. These changes have occurred in a stark and pervasive moral and ethical vacuum, in the context of unconscionable, unsustainable, and monotonically increasing welfare disparities between the rich and the poor. The world as we know it now is at the historical fork between the threshold of recovery and the brink of a new conflagration, indeed at a very promising and very threatening tipping point, and begging for drastic global financial, economic, and social redress, which only the most comprehensive multilateral and national governance reforms that would redefine the social contracts in the East and the West, the North and the South, and between them, could satisfy. Some of the more evident issues in need of holistic attention are addressed herein.



https://www.academia.edu/23094646/OFA_-_At_the_Brink_of_Recovery_or_Conflagration_The_World_at_a_Tipping_Point_2011111506



Leadership at this time of anthropogenic climate change, and catastrophic global warming, requires behaving, and getting others to behave, in line with Roosevelt’s advice to the American people and the people of the world, in his first inaugural address: “This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.”



https://www.academia.edu/15092558/LIVING_IN_PERU_-_Peru_in_Copenhagen_2009_-_My_Comments_-_2010102702



A cursory analytical look at Thomas Piketty's Thesis clearly suggests that the intrinsic nature of Capitalism ensures that the rich will get richer and the poor poorer, ad infinitum, till annihilation of the poorest, in any society in any country, unless taxation through a sole consumption tax is used to regularly redistribute the wealth created in all societies, within societies, in such a way as to preempt consumption by the poorest from falling below the threshold of autonomous survival with monotonically increasing welfare potential, that would bring their share of wealth consumption irreversibly and asymptotically closer to consumption by the richest of the rich over time. This condition would not imply equality, only the trend to equality, but when perceptible, would ensure the possibility of harmonious socioeconomic development and peace. Absolute extreme poverty as well as relative extreme poverty would be eradicated, and planetary rescue could then be pursued, essentially through voluntary population stabilization, production and consumption stabilization, and carbon emissions stabilization.



https://www.academia.edu/13062623/Informal_Proof_of_Thomas_Pikettys_Thesis_-_2014060802



Mathematical Model and Simulation for "A Partnership for Development with the United States of America" that would articulate Private Sector and Public Sector entities pertinent to environmentally-friendly holistic socioeconomic development in the American Hemisphere, bringing together its 35 nations, in a concerted effort to reduce and eliminate the existing ominous welfare gap, led by the Private Sector, for profit. Model and Simulation developed in Excel in 1999, and subjected to its subsequent versions through Excel 2003 and its updates through 2014. Some macros may not work appropriately today.



https://www.academia.edu/12823841/Mathematical_Model_and_Simulation_for_A_Partnership_for_Development_with_the_United_States_of_America_-_December_1999



The capitalization imbalance between the northern hemisphere, and the southern hemisphere, developed countries and the underdeveloped, and between OECD countries and the rest, suggests that something may be failing in the capital markets’ capacity to arbitrate investments: It would seem that it does not function effectively, and that the not so uncommon perception of increasing relative backwardness of the Third World is true. If so, beyond investigating its causes, it is necessary to investigate the attributes, achievements, and plans of existing multilateral and governmental poverty eradication and economic development organizations, and of their private counterparts, and the regulatory environment, in order to determine the need and opportunity for the creation of new private-public systems to increase the north-south investments rate.



https://www.academia.edu/12412727/WOLL_-_THE_ROLE_OF_INVESTMENT_PROMOTION_ORGANIZATIONS_IN_THIRD_WORLD_DEVELOPMENT_-_VI_-_2007103102