Part the First: Financing Professional Education in the United States. College costs too much in the United States. Professional School costs way to much. Up until the present – who knows what will happen next as the broad attacks on American universities continue – graduate education at the PhD level in traditional disciplines in the […]
Read more...Why power players should not apply their tongues to Trump’s posterior.
Read more...A detailed, yet still softball, take on how climate change damage will wreck property values and much of what passes for an economy
Read more...An overview of Clausewitz’s thinking winds up showing how the US has ignored it, with the bad results Clausewitz predicted.
Read more...Trump’s attack on Iran tests the limits of “America First” and reveals a deeper MAGA divide over who holds legitimate authority—auctoritas
Read more...An early estimate of the economic costs to Israel of the Iran war show that recovery will be difficult if not impossible.
Read more...A refined (pun intended) discussion of the state of the energy market and the high risk of continued kinetic action between Israel and Iran.
Read more...In another sign the old international order is breaking as the US flails about, a serious call for the US to leave the WTO.
Read more...Obama’s decision to “look forward” continues to reverberate into our endless wars of the present—and future.
Read more...Rob Urie points out that how many forces the US keeps in theater will reveal its intent with Iran: deescalating versus trying to regroup.
Read more...Is diminishing Iran key to the famed pivot to Asia, or a distraction?
Read more...An orthodox economist describes inconsistencies in rating agencies’ approach to downgrading US debt and their view of reserve currency status
Read more...Israel is, or is about to be, back into the war-making game. And the US is sure to be in on the action.
Read more...How a Trump 1.0 tarrifs backfire illustrates fundamental flaw in how Trump goes about doing things.
Read more...Iran updates, with the big underlying pressure being Israel’s decay path and US failure so far to arrest that.
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