The post-WWII geopolitical regime is ending. These posts discuss why it is ending and what might replace it.
Summary: For the second post on this Independence Day, see this post from 4 July 2008. Written at the start of that presidential campaign, it remains as true today as then. We have to learn from these experiences and do better if we are to have a free and prosperous future. {2nd of 2 posts …
A report card for the Republic on Independence Day! Read More »
Summary: We’re in a time of great events. Like all such, it consists of breaks with the past combined with periods of deceptive calm. This is a transition between the post-WWII era and the as yet unknowable new regime that lies ahead. The stock market provides a mirror in which we can see these great …
When you look back on this day & remember the bubble… Read More »
Summary: These days might be ones of historic significance. America is the fault line of the world, overextended militarily, with a foreign policy of institutionalized belligerence, and papered-over internal divisions. Small events that might happen any day could have almost unimaginable consequences, overturning what we consider the bedrock of our age. {2nd of 2 posts …
Any day something small might happen that changes the history of the world. Read More »
Summary: Every day brings new strangeness in the news. It’s easy to become disoriented (I am). The weirdness is a signal telling us that we’ve left the post-WWII era and begun the transition to a new world. Here we discuss three areas of oddness — and how to cope. {1st of 2 posts today.} Content …
Embrace the weird news. It signals the transition to a new world. Read More »
Summary:Â The world changes as new great powers arise. The rules of international law and commerce will evolve to meet their standards of what’s right and proper. That new world order might have no place for the financial privateers, like hedge fund manager George Soros, who loot the world under the protection of the USA …
A new world comes, probably one with no place for our “lords of finance” Read More »
