Though Japan may modify its mercantilist trade and investment policies, the country's unique and successful business and political cartels will continue to create tensions with its trading partners.
For the one factor the government has failed to understand is that as long as there are such fabulous amounts of money to be earned, and as long as the Mexican legal system is so deficient and run by corruptible officers, the drug cartels will continue to fight to their last man.
Sure, some cartel members will continue selling other illicit wares once marijuana is legalized, but since they currently earn about 60 percent of their profits from illegal marijuana sales, ending the prohibition of that cash crop will seriously undercut their ability to finance continued operations.
"If the feds prevent the state-regulated systems for marijuana sales from being enacted, drug cartels and gangs will continue to dominate the marijuana market.
All we are doing is making money right now for the cartels, and [that will continue] until the attorney general makes it a priority to go after the drug gangs and force them out of this state.
A serious discussion of oil's future must address whether we can defang the worldwide oil cartel or whether we will continue to be soaked financially for the foreseeable future.
Whether Guzmán will continue to run his cartel from hiding again is arguable, but he is hardly likely to abdicate having pulled off a coup like Sunday's escape, whatever it was.
Without this acknowledgment not only will the strategies continue to fail in Mexico, they will continue to breed top cartel leaders.
Some believe the violence will continue until one of the cartels gains control with help from the government, noting the Sinaloa cartel's arrival in a state with a strong CJNG presence at the same time as a change in the governor's office.
Likening cable companies to drug cartels, Oliver was skeptical of claims that they will continue to honor net neutrality.
