The front page of yesterday’s Friday’s Wall Street Journal had a picture of a large public TV screen in Beijing showing a satellite image of Taiwan off the coast of mainland China and how the…
A basic rule for one in a position of confrontation, whether adversarial negotiation or open conflict, is to try to anticipate what actions an adversary might do or think.
An Italian colleague used to quote a jibe at is own countrymen’s penchant for long discussions when other things needed doing.
How much does one need to know to predict what the Fed has to do?
No wonder young people are developing nihilistic attitudes. Their own government has created a formidable and all-inclusive mess.
The president of the National Education Association (NEA), an American teachers’ union and the largest union in the country, is demanding the Biden Administration force Israel to agree to a…
Fifty years ago this week, in the middle of the Arab Oil Embargo, I was in Washington trying to convince Congressional representatives, policy makers, and bureaucrats there was no crisis.
The Israel-Gaza War is having strong effects we did not expect and - so far - not having effects we expected.
A wide range of observers who study economic, political, financial, and cultural cycles of the U.S. and the world reached a common conclusion.
Along with everyone else trying to evaluate the effects of the one-day Russian revolution, China is probably re-thinking its partnership with Russia.
After thoroughly antagonizing the Saudis, a longtime ally, President Joe Biden is now trying to renew negotiations with Iran, a long-term Saudi enemy.
As of last March 30, oil had traded as a commodity on open exchanges for 40 years. Most people do not remember a time when “WTI” oil was not quoted as “the oil price” by news sources in the United…
More and more “less-developed” countries are responding favorably to China’s political and financial offers of investment, conflict resolution, an alternative financial non-dollar system, and all-…
What we see in the above news is a pattern of ineffective, incompetent, and irrational leadership by what is known as the West. Fanatics and fringe groups dictate policy. A large part of the world…
Over the last month a cascade of news confirmed the consistent incompetence of the Biden Administration and a world power shift.
What we do know is that our relationship with China is in a state of confusion. Our political, military, and financial leaders are not sure what it is or what to do about it. Are we in friendly…
A great irony of the post-colonial world is the one former colony which grew rich, prosperous, modern, and safe without natural resources by relying on the skills, industriousness, and talents of…
In early December, the G7 and EU countries, plus Australia, put a cap on the price at which they would allow sales of Russian exported crude.
Was not the Arab Oil Embargo a big deal? No. It was not. It was a meaningless gesture but came to represent the energy crisis period of the 1970s in the perceptions of many media and academic…
In days of old, when knights were bold, and oil exchanges were not invented, prices were steady, supply was plenty, and Big Oil kept drivers contented.
MSNBC has fully immersed itself into the Democratic Party, and made no attempt to hide it. During Thursday’s All In, fill in host Ali Velshi explicitly pitched DNC talking points about race and…
In case it wasn’t already obvious, MSNBC treats anything that comes out of a leftist’s mouth as an indisputable fact. On Wednesday’s Last Word, radical host Lawrence O’Donnell compared the United…