It’s All Greek To Me By Michael Lewitt “This is a great trap of the twentieth century: on the one side is the logic of the market, where we like to imagine we all start out as individuals who don’t owe each other anything. On the other is the logic…

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…link but you can subscribe if you like at http://www.foreignaffairs.org/.) I would like to recommend this essay to you, and quote a few paragraphs as a way to introduce today’s main topic: “From around 1870 until World War I, the world economy thrived in ways that look familiar today. The…

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By Gary Shilling I am convinced that the housing bubble is gigantic and will burst before long with massive implications here and abroad. In fact, it’s the key to the global economic outlook. Setting the Scene House prices in recent years have leaped well beyond their normal relationships to the…

Taper Capers Excerpted from the October, 2013 edition of The Credit Strategist, by Michael Lewitt A foolish inconsistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his…

The Unintended Empire By George Friedman, STRATFOR The American president is the most important political leader in the world. The reason is simple: he governs a nation whose economic and military policies shape the lives of people in every country on every continent. The president can and does order invasions,…

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