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14 Mar Soaring Dragon, Resting Eagle

Posted at 08:56h in Business, Economics, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Society 0 Comments

Today’s TLR is about the Soaring Dragon, its wings shading the global landscape … and the Resting Eagle, seated in its nest with its wings tucked neatly at its sides. The Dragon is China …, the 21st Century’s rising Great Power (its flight strategy described in...

07 Feb The Madness of Crowds[1]

Posted at 07:53h in Business, Economics, Politics, Society 0 Comments

Social media is the most wonderful delusion invention of the 21st Century. From a friend: “I was shopping at the mall just before Christmas and walked past this videogame store called GameStop. It was selling games that you can easily download from a home computer. My...

10 Jan America’s Economic Perpetual Motion Machine

Posted at 08:03h in Business, Economics, General, Society 0 Comments

America’s economy is running on a belief in perpetual motion …, the reason being that the U.S. government is printing piles oodles of Dollars with the expressed intention of continuing to do so indefinitely … using those Dollars to fund America’s lavish military and entitlement...

03 Jan Revisiting the Themes of 2020

Posted at 08:15h in Business, Economics, Foreign Policy, General, Health, International Relations, Law, Politics, Society 0 Comments

TLR’s most important narratives center on bridging America’s divisions …, and 2020 provided plenty of grist for that mill. Progress in any culture and any political system requires a constant re-examination of goals and realities. In America today, progress depends on a critical evaluation of the...

15 Nov Rational Exuberance

Posted at 07:42h in Business, Economics, General, Society 0 Comments

The obverse of “Rational Exuberance” is “Irrational Exuberance,” a phrase popularized in December 1996 by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan when he warned investors that unjustified internet optimism had crept into stock market valuations. As a consequence, he warned, soaring valuation assumptions based on rosy...

14 Mar Soaring Dragon, Resting Eagle

07 Feb The Madness of Crowds[1]

10 Jan America’s Economic Perpetual Motion Machine

03 Jan Revisiting the Themes of 2020

15 Nov Rational Exuberance

Middle East War

Extremist America

Cassandra was (and is) right

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