Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

A Post-Davos World? Sign me up.

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The whole World Economic Forum/Davos experience is one part Bond villain parody, one part clout seeking billionaires, one part megalomania, ...
Monday, November 28, 2022

The EU's Real Enemy - the United States?

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If you are an American who lived on the European Continent, specifically Western Europe, you’re very familiar with an exceptionally sharp st...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Bother Not the Oil and Wine - Bother First the Defense

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As a mercantile republic - that is our natural state, don't forget that - our ultimate power is not our military. It is the byproduct of...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

There Must be Consequences for European Security Freeriding

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For a decade and a half here we have yelled, begged, pleaded for Continental European NATO - especially Germany - to rise to the challenge o...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Russia's Last Gasp War?

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It's been a couple of years since we visited Peter Zeihan, and two weeks ago he posted a video that just pulls it all together to make a...
Sunday, April 03, 2022

War, Pestilence, and Famine - the World's Logistics Falters - with Ross Kennedy on Midrats

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  If it's April, it's time for a return visit by Ross Kennedy to Midrats! A little under a year ago, we had Ross on to discuss the i...
Monday, February 28, 2022

You want a Cyber World War? This is How You Get One

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Events in the Second Russo-Ukrainian War ( or whatever it is being called, this is what I call it with the 1st being in 2014 ), are moving f...
Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Understanding Kazakhstan: People Have to Eat. Winter is Cold. You need to Work.

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If you recall, the "Arab Spring" started with increases in food prices going in to winter. The Kazakh government seems to have col...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Time for a Maritime Department? Next up, Jimmy Drennan on Midrats

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  All you need to do is look at a map to tell that we are a maritime nation. A strong Navy is only part of being a maritime power. As everyo...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Economic Power is Global Power

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Want to get a more wholistic view of what is and what is not worth the investment of strategic effort, sacrifice, and investment? Follow the...
Monday, September 20, 2021

Shippings Flock of Swans

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Most readers here are aware of the fleets parked off major ports on both coasts ;  The number of container ships at anchor or drifting in Sa...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Shipping in the time of COVID with Sal Mercogliano - on Midrats

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Shipping rates, supply bottlenecks, and some nightmare abandonment stories for some mariners, like everything else on our water plant, COVID...
Monday, July 19, 2021

France's Stand in the Pacific Contra China

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Most people do not realize that one of the largest Pacific nation, if you measure by territorial seas, is France. She has a lot to lose in a...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Kiwis go Wobbly

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Another sad week for those who wish New Zealand was a better partner for the West ... but she has a history here. What is even more sad is t...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

The Supply Chains that Bind Us, with Ross Kennedy - on Midrats

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Our comfortable, modern life exists on a delicate fabric of global transportation, laws, and lines of communication supported by assumptions...
Monday, March 29, 2021

On Suez: You Can't Buy Training Like This

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At last, our great mercantilist nightmare has ended ( almost, kind of ).  The mammoth cargo ship blocking one of the world’s most vital mari...
Monday, November 30, 2020

China Bully-boys Australia

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Here is one hard fact; Australia has 1.7% of the population of Communist China.  Additionally, Australia is 80% of the landmass of Communist...