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2:00PM Water Cooler 7/19/2018

Temporarily open thread.

Obama Continues His Long Con at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

Former United States Barack Obama[1] gave the Sixteenth Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture[2] on July 17 before 15,000 people at the Bidvest Wanderers Stadium in Illovo, a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg. The lecture was also streamed online. The event was sponsored by the Nelson Mandela Foundation[3]. I really ought to get out my magic markers and […]

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Google Bitten by 2nd Antitrust Fine in the EU, $5 Billion, Hugest Ever Anywhere. Third Waiting in the Wings

Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine.

Can Globalization Be Reversed?

Will the Trump tariffs lead to a rollback of globalization? And if so, what might it look like?

Marshall Auerback: How Plan to Replace LIBOR Will Cement Fed’s Role as Global Central Banker

How proposals to replace LIBOR will strengthen the Fed’s position in global markets.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/18/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: Textiles and trade, Clinton, Cuomo corruption, Helsinki commentary, electronic voting, mortage applications, housing starts, home delivery, labor market, Eric Garner, federated social networks

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Commandos Sans Frontières: The Global Growth of US Special Operations Forces

Why Green Berets and Navy SEALs need to solve national security problems — strategic issues that ought to be addressed by policymakers — is a question that has long gone unanswered: Overview of global deployment of US commandos.