President Donald Trump will be meeting his Chinese counterpart on Thursday negotiate economic and security matters. But while Mr. Trump is confident he will “make America great again,” the country can barely afford both butter and guns. The national … [Read more...] about Trump, Xi Jinping, and the US Economy
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Special Relationship II*
Back in 1887 the famous poet and storyteller Oscar Wilde quipped: ‘We [English] have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’. We got another example of this malediction in the blah-blah-blah which has attended … [Read more...] about Special Relationship II*
A Global Witches’ Brew*
Left: This is an engraving from Mechanics Magazine published in London in 1824. Surviving a new world of debt, liquidity, corruption, money laundering, and social entropy. It is said that the great Ottoman Sultan, Suleyman the Magnificent … [Read more...] about A Global Witches’ Brew*