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 The rise of the Global East/South, much to the dismay of the Global North/West as a challenge to the Post-WWII global order under US domination as a resurgence of the British Empire.The Vineyard of the SakerYou’re either with us or you’re a “systemic challenge”Pepe Escobar

1945Is NATO Membership for Finland and Sweden a Bad Idea? (Yes, it increases the probability of the US being nuked, with no corresponding benefit to either the US or NATO)Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (USA ret.), Senior Fellow and Military Expert for Defense Prioritieshttps://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/06/is-nato-membership-for-finland-and-sweden-a-bad-idea/A Son of the New American RevolutionAMERICANS DO NOT UNDERSTAND THEIR OWN MILITARY HISTORYLarry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG...

On August 27, 2020, the US Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell made a path breaking speech – New Economic Challenges and the Fed’s Monetary Policy Review. On the same day, the Federal Reserve Bank released a statement – Federal Open Market Committee announces approval of updates to its Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy. I analysed that shift in this blog post – US Federal Reserve statement signals a new phase in the paradigm shift in macroeconomics (August 31,...

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Banks have $3T of regulatory required reserve assets getting IOR and $4.5T of regulatory required HQLA govt securities... if they get this 4% minimum on this $7.5T of regulatory assets (QT will albeit reduce this slightly by then) that would be $300B annual in revenues to US banks for doing nothing other than complying with government regulations….  Up from 0 at ZIRP very recently…And Fed has over $2T in RRP paying about the same rate so that would be another $80B annual to somebody…. Then...

Domestic production finally back above 12Mbpd… another 1M to go to get back to pre-CCP virus production rate…Let's gooooo "US crude production rose to the highest since April 2020, rising to 12.1 million BPD. - EIA"https://t.co/bOgBlgQm9i https://t.co/kgzGWn8SYT pic.twitter.com/Cg3PfveDAe— Gold (@GoldmanShark0x) June 29, 2022

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Michael Roberts Blog — blogging from a marxist economistThe global solution: private or public?https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/the-global-solution-private-or-public/Gold Goats 'N GunsThe G-7 Squawks But They’ve Already Lost the War Against RussiaTom Luongohttps://tomluongo.me/2022/06/29/the-g-7-squawks-but-theyve-already-lost-the-war-against-russia/Zero HedgeDemand Destruction Emerges As Americans Cancel Road...

A Son of the New American RevolutionNATO’S Meaningless Military Gestureshttps://sonar21.com/natos-meaningless-military-gestures/Why Russia Doubts NATO’s “Good” Intentionshttps://sonar21.com/why-russia-doubts-natos-good-intentions/Larry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism...

Painted with a very broad brush, but an interesting summary. It's short and on point. Summary: Marx was focused on the long-term, historical nature of capitalism that gave capitalism its law-like behavior, making it predictable, while Keynes was focused on the short-term, political challenges of capitalism that he believed policy measures could overcome. However, their analysis of key issues is remarkably similar, at least in outline.Global Inequality And MoreA short essay on the differences...