Monthly Archives: January 2018

Domestic Travails of Competing Nationalisms: A Mess Called Brexit

Posted on January 28, 2018 by William Holland

The foundation of England’s Imperial Empire abroad was sound governance based on ethnic kingship.  The old maxim of divide and conquer had limited yet profound appeal for imperial Brits; the crude Darwinian calculus used to determine British interests abroad, especially … Continue reading →

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Caveats In Pakistan’s Oriental Orbit

Posted on January 28, 2018 by William Holland

Its getting amusing to witness the bemoaning of U.S. Pakistani relations, especially regarding Beijing’s attempt to corral Islamabad out from its U.S. orbit with promises of money, roads and security.  The Punjabi’s that run the Citadel don’t really want to … Continue reading →

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Prince bin Salman’s Paradox: Governing Yemen

Posted on January 28, 2018 by William Holland

There are three regions in the world that are heating up:  the Info-Pacific, the Red Med-African Horn & the southern tier of the Arabian peninsula.  Yemen is a real trap for the Saudi’s, it can destroy the House of Saud … Continue reading →

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Can FARC Become Sinn Fein

Posted on January 27, 2018 by William Holland

When the late Martin McGuinness spoke of preparing for the long war he implicitly knew Clausewitz’s dictum that war is politics by another means. Having confounded Thatcher and divided London from Washington while Soviet propaganda raged on about Apartheid and … Continue reading →

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Fragile by Design: Bubbles, Mania’s & Credit Cycles

Posted on January 27, 2018 by William Holland

Ten years ago, the U.S. entered a Great Depression.  A decade on, the depression still occupies a strange place in the American psyche. America suffered a cumulative loss of output equaling $4trillion.  By any measure, working stiff’s haven’t recovered.  Many … Continue reading →

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Saudi’s Try Coordination, Shale Fracks On

Posted on January 27, 2018 by William Holland

The rise in oil prices is due to two converging outcomes, neither of which is planned in a global commodity market.  The Saudi’s are still wrangling both OPEC and non-OPEC members to slash 2% of supply so as to build … Continue reading →

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Armed Insurrection Begins: Venezuela

Posted on January 21, 2018 by William Holland

Armed civilians seek to counter Maduro’s regime, a dictatorship backed by Iran and Russia skirt by as civilian life in Latin America’s richest state is sundered by political brutality.  How does this end? If a government begins to pauperize its … Continue reading →

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Turkey Wages War Against US Led Kurdish Proxies in Syria

Posted on January 21, 2018 by William Holland

Russia and Iran hold nominal sovereignty over Syria.  To complicate matters, Kurdish forces and indigenous Syrians trained and led by American forces have created border security guards to alleviate Turkish incursions into northwest Syria.  But on Friday, January 19, Turkish … Continue reading →

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Tunisia’s 7 Year Itch

Posted on January 21, 2018 by William Holland

Tunisia may be home to the Arab Spring, but the contortions of its political economy mean that most Tunisian’s are giving up on democracy.  If it to remain a deferred model for Muslim governance throughout the Arab world, then Tunisian’s … Continue reading →

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China Parries US Tax Reform

Posted on January 17, 2018 by William Holland

The single greatest threat China has is US tax reform and the consequential repatriation of hundreds of millions of dollars back to the US.  Although this would damage both the Fed’s and Treasury’s historical mien of demand based inflation, an … Continue reading →

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