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2 days ago

What’s Next for World War III?

Great Game Theory — For all the little knobs whining about American imperialism, in our defense we’ve been spasticly backing away from the global stage since George W. realized that the Mission was not, in fact, Accomplished. Obama didn’t know how to throw the machine into reverse and candidates Trump and Clinton both vowed…

Ukraine

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What’s Next for World War III?
What’s Next for World War III?
Ukraine

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6 days ago

Venezuala Guyana get prickly

Brazil has “intensified defensive actions” along its northern border with Venezuela to prevent an invasion of Guyana. US Army special forces are also met with Guyanese leaders over the weekend. The fracas is over a Venezuelan referendum, held yesterday by President Nicolás Maduro on whether two-thirds of Guyana known as…

Venezuela

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Venezuala Guyana get prickly
Venezuala Guyana get prickly
Venezuela

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Dec 1

A Hard Landing for US and China?

An Unfortunate Scenario Despite the post-Thanksgiving shop-a-thon, US numbers are softening; bankruptcies, defaults and late payments are ticking up. So is unemployment, putting a break on rising wage as interest rates pinch. In short, a soft landing for the economy is looking less likely. For its part, China can’t get…

China

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A Hard Landing for US and China?
A Hard Landing for US and China?
China

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Nov 29

Black Friday, Big Sandwich & the SEC

4717 Flight Black Friday set a record $9.8bn in sales, up 7.5% from last year. The frenzy continued through the holiday as Americans spent $38bn over the next five days. Cyber Monday that its own record of $12.4bn, up 9.6% from last year. None of which was spent on Mrs…

SEC

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Black Friday, Big Sandwich & the SEC
Black Friday, Big Sandwich & the SEC
SEC

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Nov 8

Oil Prices: The Gaza Ringer

On October 6th, the day before Hamas militants went berserk even by their medieval standards, the Middle East was making largely successful first steps to normalization of relations with tetchy rivals and diversifying their economies. Not only were they building swank sports stadiums and shopping malls, with that oil money…

Gaza

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Oil Prices: The Gaza Ringer
Oil Prices: The Gaza Ringer
Gaza

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Nov 6

Don’t Look Down: US Recession in 2024?

There is a certain element of Wile E. Coyote about Bidenonmics — the theory that you must me aware of standing on thin air for it to drag you to your death in badly-drawn desert canyon. The wild thing about a consumer driven economy is that it can stay aloft…

Recession

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Don’t Look Down: US Recession in 2024?
Don’t Look Down: US Recession in 2024?
Recession

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Oct 31

Bletchley Park, AI & Known Unknowns

On November 1–2 a hundred or so world leaders and tech executives will meet outside of London to discuss Artificial Intelligence, the future, and how we won’t have one if we don’t get ahead of AI. To instill a sense of history and context, the meeting is being held at…

AI

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Bletchley Park, AI & Known Unknowns
Bletchley Park, AI & Known Unknowns
AI

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Oct 30

The UAW, Chile’s commodities, Gaza, and bad management from Moscow

The United Auto Workers union has reached a tentative agreement on a worker’s contract with Stellantis — which owns Jeep for a 25% pay increase to be phased in over the next 4 ½ years, after inking a similar deal with Ford. …

Israel

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Israel

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Oct 26

Flight: 26 October 2023

The House of Representatives managed elect Mike Johnson of Louisiana as House Speaker after dicking around for three weeks where they…

GOP

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Flight: 26 October 2023
Flight: 26 October 2023
GOP

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Oct 17

A Functional Defeat on the Black Sea

War is not like the movies. Those theatrical, made-for-tv breakthroughs don’t happen all that often and they don’t happen on demand — there is literally an entire army willing to mass homicide so that it doesn’t happen. And that will really gum up the works. Although… it’s not clear that…

Ukraine War

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A Functional Defeat on the Black Sea
A Functional Defeat on the Black Sea
Ukraine War

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Richard Murff

Richard Murff

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Founder of the 4717 Author of Haint Punch, and Pothole of the Gods. Good egg

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