Coronavirus looks to me like a trigger rather than a cause. Why would that be? For one, a market…
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Stock-Market Optimism
Breathtaking news, Wall Street investors are breathless with optimism. The world is going to hell in a breathlessly accelerated…
Tariffs Are Not Advanced by Breaking All the China
Don’t confuse the headline with breaking the Chinese nation, I’m using the more common reference to bulls in china…
A Return to Tariffs in the United States Makes Sense
Tariffs are essentially a tax on imports or exports between nations. Their goal is to protect manufacturing and that’s more…
Time for another Nixon-Kissinger style trip to Beijing—this time to Moscow
In 1972, exactly 43 years and four months ago, newly elected President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor, Henry…
Defusing a Bar-Fight by Handing One Guy a Broken Bottle
Taiwanese Leader Hails Weapons Deal With U.S. By Jane Rickards Special to The Washington Post Sunday, October 5, 2008; A21…
Blame It All on China
China’s Cars, Accelerating A Global Demand for Fuel By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, July 28, 2008;…
Let the Games Begin in China–Not the Olympic, the Arms Race
March 5, 2008 Chinese Military Spending Up Sharply By DAVID LAGUE BEIJING — China announced a further sharp…
Dressing Up Space Defense in Dominatrix Clothing
Setting aside and ignoring the blather of Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, we are becoming a sadomasochistic nation when it…
Don’t Worry World, It’s Only Us
Space Defense Program Gets Extra Funding By Walter Pincus Monday, November 12, 2007; Page A19 While wrestling with wars in…