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Monthly Archives: December 2017
The Swamp & the Citadel: Pakistan’s Abetted Agitprop
Watching the wheelchair bound Muslim cleric Khadim Rizvi engage his ministry at the Faizabad interchange instructs those unfamiliar with Pakistan that the Army continues to incite public violence for political profit. The army’s utter refusal to disperse militant Islamists evidenced … Continue reading
Posted in Pakistan, Uncategorized
Tagged Army, Imran Khan, ISI, Khadim Rizvi, Khan, Muslim League, Pakistan, Sharif
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Weakened Case For Higher Interest Rates: the Flattening Yield Curve
The canard of secular stagnation was laughable, especially given the credentialed gnomes belief in demand sided macro thought. No measure is ever given to the antecedents of our Constitutional Republic, its constitutive bases in civil society, in spheres of autonomy … Continue reading
Posted in Macro-economics, Macroeconomics, Uncategorized
Tagged Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Policy, Phillips Curve, Yield Curves
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India’s Soft Power Remains Diminished, But Beijing’s Appeal Remains Untested
The politics of the subcontinent are intractable. That’s because most westerners shape their policy convictions from inside the ideological symmetries of the enlightenment whose apex is Westphalia. Clearly, whoever continues to teach it this way hasn’t visited the subcontinent where … Continue reading
Posted in India, Uncategorized
Tagged Bangladesh, Beijing, Bhutan, Chia, India, New Delhi, war
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An Autocratic Bear; An Idealist Eagle
It has become frankly apparent that major news media throughout the United States have absolutely no interest in reporting the news, they wish to shape the news to damage any sitting Republican at the White House. I think the vast … Continue reading
Posted in Russia, Uncategorized
Tagged oil, Putin, Russia, Sanctions, Time of Troubles
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Polygamy: the Passions of Pan-African Jihad
Paul Malong is South Sudan’s former army chief of staff with over 100 wives. One recently ran off in hiding after remarrying a teacher. Jane Austen’s admonition that we’re all fools in love never mentioned how to manage a cuckold … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Uncategorized
Tagged Fragile States Index, Islam, Pan-Africa, patrilinoeal, patrilocal, polgygamy, Polygyny, Swahili
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Why Taxes Matter: Growth vs. Redistribution
My father often said: sometimes its who’s talking not what’s said. Leadership matters, that’s why its important to find the right person to listen to about taxation, because its a dangerous form of social engineering. An overt ideological pretext isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Macro-economics, Uncategorized
Tagged corporate taxes, Robert Schiller CAPE index
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Index Funds: Why Passive Investing Wins
Nothing threatened active fund managers more than passive index investing and the reach for yield under Bernanke & Yellen. The closure of hedge funds and other active money managed businesses tied to the 1% is the collateral damage done by … Continue reading
The Return of 19th Century Geopolitics
The explicit reality of ‘closed covenants’ is what drove the monarchies toward extinction in World War One. Given that Parliaments throughout Europe are intrinsically unsteady, many hewed from unenumerated Republican ideals make them easily susceptible to the soft demographic insurgency … Continue reading
Why Bangladesh Burns Authoritarian
Contemporary Bangladesh pivots between two competing political camps that vie for the allegiance of growing militancy: Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League (AL) and Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was Bangladesh’s first President, his daughter, Sheikh Hasina Wajed currently … Continue reading
General Tso’s Monetary Admission: Either Beijing Reforms or Dies
Somewhere deep in the diaries of Zhou Xiaochuan (China’s chief monetary officer) resides profound admonitions to strong to admit, namely that economic laws are real and cannot be surmounted for long. Outspoken, even blunt toward the end of his tenure, … Continue reading