William Holland

Difficulity of measuring service based productivity gains & nature of running a business with scarce revenue all explain US productivity slowdown.

The impact of fear is manytimes WAR. Lincoln embraced his Machiavelli but knew how to manage the socio-political aggregates of Congress & public opinion prior to war.

Trade deficit b/c US remains global reserve currency with low domestic savings. Globalization has benefits that multi-national companies love.

IPO's aren't created with onerous costs of fiscal/financial reporting mandated by Sarbanes-Oxley Act, especially sections 302,404, 906. Collectively they remain a drag on employment. Companies list elsewhere.

Late great Ann Schwartz knew that bank (bond) recapitalizaton was desired policy to rescue banks in 2008; it was fundamentally NOT a liquidity crisis. Obituary https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/business/anna-schwartz-economist-who-worked-with-friedman-dies-at-96.html

Christian faiths have sources of renewal and growth outside militant secularism.

Quote from Haye's 'Road to Serfdom'. How collectivist thought begins in liberal regimes.

Trade deficits = no savings with global integrated markets. Budget deficits = excessivine govmint spending. Only sound domestic fiscal polices can reignite US manufacturing.

Oil volatility from Venezuela, Libya, Nigeria and others; OPEC will collapse bringing more unrest to supplies & weak dollar all hurt global petrol suppy markets.

Russian Gazprom megaprojects into Turkey & into Europe via Germany will dominate 2019 domestic & US foreign policy.

Impotent rage of both Christian Democrats & Social Democrats cannot hide the moral crisis that is German national identity.

Gregory Copley "Sovereignty in the 21 century" https://www.globalstrikemedia.com/thought-leadership-international-political-economy-foreign-affairs/sovereignty-in-the-21st-century-gregory-copley

Nigeria resembels Egypt: domestic insurgency, failed oil output, fractured socio-political sectarian urban war emerging.

Southern US border states suffer from idential fiscal, social problems as soutern Mediterranean.

High demography, Vertical drawn weak states, horizontal population belts & ethnic based sectarian URAN war is the future.

Middle East policy is unfolding in fits. Here's what Moscow has proved to everyone.

Non existant irrigation, poor seeds vulnerable to drought, and intrastate conflict drive mass starvation in the African Trans-Sahel region.

Mozambique needs functioning captial financial markets to defeat its resource curse.

IMF loans, subsidies, Gulf Petrol monarchy financing abroad all help al-Sisi defeat a domestic insurgency.

OPEC cartel cannot equal 12 million bar. per/day like US exporters. OPEC is finished like the rest of the Petrol Monarchies.

Cuba & Russia remain Venezuela's protectors, hurting them means helping Venezuela.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-offbeat-genius-of-a-great-american-spy-11548478837

End mandates impacting unemployment (Humphrey/Hawkins) mandates; keep prince stability instead.

How Vockler saved western civilization and the canard that there are limits to growth (stagflation); the Keynesian impossibility of having both inflation & unemployment (the Phillips Curve.)