Episodes

Bad Domestic Fiscal Policy = NO IPO's 28.01.2019 3:06

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.

The FED & Bank Capitalization 27.01.2019 4:49

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

Secular Militancy: False Idols of autonomy, consumption plague western Civilization 27.01.2019 4:53

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

Collectivist Thought: Hayek's Contempt 27.01.2019 3:41

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

Trade-Budget Deficits & Executive Politics 27.01.2019 6:53

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

Volatile Oil Markets: 2019 27.01.2019 6:10

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

Balkan Faultlines continue despite US presence 27.01.2019 4:31

Oil Geopolitics: faultine for 2019 27.01.2019 7:52

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

German Weakness is Permanent 27.01.2019 5:09

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

21st Century Conflit: Globalists vs. Nationalists 27.01.2019 6:36

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's February Election: Centerpiece AFRICOM 27.01.2019 5:08

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

Libya Crowds Italy: mass migration 27.01.2019 5:59

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

African Demography & Urban War 27.01.2019 5:33

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

Trump's Reboot or Vacillation: foreign policy 26.01.2019 6:45

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

Africa's Trans-Sahel Starving: Man made problem 26.01.2019 5:34

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

East African Chaos called Mozambique 26.01.2019 4:15

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

Egypt: 8 years after the Arab Spring 26.01.2019 6:15

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

Saudi Swing State Defeated by Fracking 26.01.2019 4:23

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

Venezuela's Protectors: Cuba, Russia 26.01.2019 5:04

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

CIA's Tony Mendez Dies 26.01.2019 2:43

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

How the FED should operate 24.01.2019 3:35

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

Paul Volcker: "Keeping At IT" 23.01.2019 6:28

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.)

Capitalism: What the GOP must sell 23.01.2019 4:38

If businesses can expense annual capital expenditures, economic growth insures.

Nancy Pelosi: Call Peter Drucker 23.01.2019 4:46

"Leaders don't spend precious capital, they get issues off their desk".

Nat Glazer dies at 95: Original Neoconservative 23.01.2019 7:26

After teaching at Berkeley ('68) and working in govmint, Glazer gave up on his youthful Trotskyite socio-political ambitions.