“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations. Their economies emerge and retract, develop and decline, and while, as investor Jimmy Rogers writes, “the 19th century bel...
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“Families are always rising and falling in America,” Nathaniel Hawthorne observed, and the same is true of nations. Their economies emerge and retract, develop and decline, and while, as investor Jimmy Rogers writes, “the 19th century bel...
As the sixteenth round of negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) closed in Singapore last week, it is time to examine the nature of the proposed free trade agreement. The TPP, if instituted, would be a major expansion of the 2005 P4 ag...
As the sixteenth round of negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) closed in Singapore last week, it is time to examine the nature of the proposed free trade agreement. The TPP, if instituted, would be a major expansion of the 2005 P4 ag...
This week, I originally planned to write of a new and recent phenomenon, the assumption of China as the globe’s leading importer of oil, a heavy title the U.S. has carried for nearly the past forty years. The implications of this shift can and ...
This week, I originally planned to write of a new and recent phenomenon, the assumption of China as the globe’s leading importer of oil, a heavy title the U.S. has carried for nearly the past forty years. The implications of this shift can and ...
In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I agree with most of them, and after reading the article I found myself thinking on a historical analogy of the conf...
In his recent column on the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands dispute between China and Japan, Carter Johnson raises several interesting points. I agree with most of them, and after reading the article I found myself thinking on a historical analogy of the conf...