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Financial Crisis Report Written and Edited by David M PUBLISHED BY MIYOSHI LAW October 2018 INTERNATIONAL & EST ATE LAW PRACTICE Volume 1, Issue 84 Financial Crisis Report Written and Edited by David M. Miyoshi Advancing in a Time of Crisis Words of Wisdom: “We are going to have peace even if we have to fight Inside this issue: for it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower 1. US Open Final Sets Up 2020 Candidate 2. Does China Control Apple? ne year ago, on Oct 1, 2017 the worst During the match Carlos Ramos, the 47-year-old 3. Jobs That Will Become Extinct shooting in U.S. history happened in Portuguese umpire handed out three code viola- 4. Aretha Franklin Died Without Will Las Vegas. There still is no full expla- tions to the loser Serena Williams, prompting a 5. Millennials Hate Capitalism nation or report of it. Sadly, “what heated on-court argument with the 23-times 6. Wasting IQ’s O happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” may Grand Slam champion and sparking a debate 7. Men Shut Up and Step Up be true. about sexism in tennis. Except for the Great Depression, we are experiencing the most In his first public statement after the U.S. Open, economically unstable period in Ramos said he was "good" despite the firestorm the history of the modern world. U.S. Open Women’s Final Sets of controversy that followed his officiating of This period will be marked with the match. extreme fluctuations in the stock, Up 2020 Democratic Presiden- commodity and currency markets tial Candidate accompanied by severe and some- The International Tennis Federation (ITF), is- times violent social disruptions. sued a statement describing Ramos as one of the As is typical of such times, many he U.S. Open Women’s Final deter- fortunes will be made and lost most respected umpires in tennis and has ap- during this period. After talking mined not only this year’s best U.S. pointed him to officiate the semi-final of the with many business owners, female tennis player but also who Davis Cup, the international men's team event, executives, professionals and would be the 2020 U.S. presidential between Croatia and the United States. government officials from around T candidate for the Democratic party. the world, the writer believes that for the financially astute investor, However, the United States Tennis Association this is a time of unprecedented (USTA) and Women's Tennis Association opportunity given the global (WTA) both publicly backed the allegations of trade unbalances and distortions in the commodity and currency sexism levelled at Ramos. markets. The Financial Crisis Report is a free compilation of the opinions of David Miyoshi as well Billie Jean King, the former world number one as of those advisors he himself who founded the WTA in the 1970s, said all subscribes to (with appropriate sides shared blame for the incident, saying Wil- credits given) on how to benefit liams was "out of line" but that Ramos could during this time of crisis. The have prevented the controversy with more leni- writer receives no compensation ency and clearer communication. of any kind from any advisors whose articles or ideas may ap- Except for people in Japan, most people in the pear in this report. The reader is world were not familiar with the name Naomi welcomed to check on all sources Osaka, the tennis player who beat Serena Wil- Ramos was unable to defend himself in public in of information mentioned herein. liams in the finals of the U.S. Open. This is be- New York as the row escalated over the week- Because the opinions and obser- cause the match involved perhaps the biggest end after the match as ITF rules prevent umpires vations of this writer and other spat between a player (Williams) and an umpire from commenting on their matches. advisors are provided herein in tournament’s history. Unfortunately, this without charge, the reader is marred and obscured the reality that Osaka is the asked to make his/her own judg- first Japanese of either gender to win a major Following the match, Herald-Sun’s Australian ment on the contents. cartoonist Mark Knight drew a caricature of a tournament ever. hulking Serena Williams stomping her racket Past Newsletters can be downloaded at www.miyoshilaw.com/newsletters Financial Crisis Report Volume 1, Issue 84 Page 2 U.S. Open Women’s Final Sets Up 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate “This whole cartoon is vile,” she added, saying that Ms. Wil- liams’s opponent, Naomi Osaka, had been drawn as a white wom- an. “The fact that it was printed and passed the editor’s room speaks even more volumes about the landscape of our media here in Australia.” But is it fair to hold an Australian to an American standard? Not being American, some cartoonists argue, is no excuse. “While Australia has its own unique colonial history separate from the United States, the Western world, including Australia, share an into the ground. A discarded pacifier lies nearby, as if Williams is aesthetic history,” said Ronald Wimberly, an artist and designer a toddler throwing a tantrum. In the background, umpire Carlos known for his commentary on race and comics. Ramos asks her opponent, Naomi Osaka, “Can you just let her win?” That history includes an effort “to dehumanize black and brown people by degrading their features into symbols of the subhuman,” In America the cartoon was immediately met with outrage and Wimberly said, offering a detailed critique of the U.S. Open car- denounced with calls of racism. toon, which he described as a failure on many levels: Knight, and the editor Damon Johnston tried to explain, arguing “Is this cartoon racist? First, what is this cartoon doing? What’s the object? The text is a pretty clear, if flaccid, punch line regard- that their critics missed the point. ing Serena Williams’s poor sportsmanship. It alludes to Serena “The cartoon about Serena is about her poor behavior on the day, being childish and angry (I’d argue that the text relies on racist, not about race,” Knight said in an article on the Herald Sun web- sexist tropes, too). site about the backlash. But cartoons are a drawing medium. Now, I don’t want to blindly “A champion tennis player had a mega-tantrum on the world attribute intent, but setting aside the possibility that the cartoonist stage, and Mark’s cartoon depicted that,” Johnston said. “It had is just a poor draftsman, the drawings seem to ridicule Serena’s nothing to do with gender or race.” appearance. These aren’t very good likenesses. Mark isn’t using the medium to support his joke by, say, depicting Serena as a ba- by, in which case the pacifier should have been more prominently Many Australians argue that Knight’s work reflects a wider pat- featured. tern. Australia has never fully confronted its own history of rac- ism, and scholars say the conversation around race in Australia is not as robust and layered as it is in the United States. Cartooning uses the shorthand of symbols to depict things. This is the craft. Using symbols. The pacifier is a symbol of immaturity, it alludes to a baby throwing a tantrum. But Mark is also drawing Ideas like implicit bias are rarely referenced or widely understood, from a different history of symbols here. Racist and sexist sym- for example, and many people say Knight’s employer deserves a bols. Mark critiques the appearance and performance of Serena’s fair share of the blame. body in relation to race and sex, not her sportsmanship.” . “This is what Australia does,” said Shareena Clanton, an Aborigi- Wimberly said there was only one conclusion that anyone who nal Australian actress and activist. “This is what it has always knows anything about cartooning or race could come to: “Whether done to people of color and, in particular, black women who reach or not Mark intended to draw on the racist history of the symbols, the top.” he has. His intent is irrelevant. Either he is a deliberately racist cartoonist — or an incompetent and careless cartoonist.” Past Newsletters can be downloaded at www.miyoshilaw.com/newsletters Financial Crisis Report Volume 1, Issue 84 Page 3 Does China Control Apple? Whether the cartoon is considered in Australia an accurate carica- Like Obama in 2008, Harris is taking all of the calculated steps a ture of what happened at the U.S. Open or in America as an ex- candidate with eyes on the White House would be taking at this pression of outright racism, the point is clear that these days, in early stage. America it is socially taboo to disparage a black celebrity, either in politics, sports or entertainment. She's working on a new book that describes her underdog story and political agenda. Today, to be called a “Nazi” in Germany or a “Racist” in America is the ultimate offense and most prevalent fear of the accused and those who dare do so tread on very treacherous grounds. But in She's headlining sold-out political fundraising events, raising mil- any given case, whether there are valid grounds and justification lions of dollars for the Democratic Party. for these accusations is an entirely separate concern. Too often such accusations are made without any basis in truth or fact and are used primarily as a weapon of political or social control. In the She's giving commencement speeches at left-leaning universities U.S. this is an all too often heard lament. and appearing on highly viewed talk shows. In my past newsletter of August 2018 (2020 Election OMG!) I She's assembling a campaign team of former Hillary Clinton cite the Las Vegas odds for who will be the Democratic candidate aides.
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