Every decade a huge new infrastructure bill is passed. Money is allocated, money is spent. People forget that we already fixed that, and a new generation comes of voting age…
The Infrastructure Bill. Can America buy a comeback?
Every decade a huge new infrastructure bill is passed. This is a post mortem of all that money, past, present and future
Michael Anton: Machiavelli and a tyranny turned inwards
A chat with Michael Anton: Machiavelli, Thucydides, a Green Zone in D.C and a tyranny turned inwards
Social and Political discussions
🥤🍿 Here’s @DarrenJBeattie @JackPosobiec @RonColeman @willchamberlain @johnrobb @barnes_law @LeeSmithDC @julie_kelly2 and so on and so on.
So that all these chats will be not be ‘lost in time, like tears in rain’.
– Batty, Blade Runner
Investor Series: Discussions about the markets
I started the Investor Series interviews in July of 2020 to remind people to invest. I ended it in March of 2021 because we told those stories
Jack Murphy w/surprise guest Adam Townsend
This is a chat that was originally broadcast live on Periscope. Jack Murphy live with surprise guest Adam Townsend. March 25, 2021
It’s a wild, kinda nostalgic look back. We were different People, in a different Time in a different Place. Dark City feels.
Gwadar port. Pakistan’s investment and China’s staggering yield
The Gwadar port is priceless for China and on sale by Pakistan
Argumentum ad Covidum
Chapter 1. Prologue Today is not one day more than yesterday, it is a new creation. If you fall asleep on a couch, as I expect to do this evening,…
China contagion. Exporting crisis and why they won’t recover
With no oversight from international human rights, health & regulatory orgs, China built massive detainment facilities. #NeverAgain or nah?
China’s Belt and Road destruction
🇨🇳 Post mortem of 8 countries on the Belt and Road path.
🧨 Beware the China Exim Bank
Trump visits India. What would be great, good, bad or horrible. Cos media isn’t honest, I will be…
On February 24/25, 2020 President Trump will visit India. This could be an “India Reset”, diplomacy that reshapes geopolitics and finance, trade, defense. Or it may not.
Both are transactional leaders, both need a deal.
Because the media on both sides of the world will never accurately report the breadth of good news, I will give you the info so you can judge as the meeting concludes. I can, however rely on the media to reliably report whatever bad may result.
China in Pakistan. The failure explained
In 2015 the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was announced as a “flagship” of the Belt and Road Initiative. It’s been a failure. Explained.
Hong Kong. An update with questions answered
Hong Kong is a liberal non-democracy.Â
Because it’s liberal, people can protest, have freedom of speech, freedom of assemblyÂ
Because it’s a non-democracy, the government can ignore them.
It’s not a stable combination.Â
How China took over Bolivia
In 2006, prior to assuming the Bolivian presidency, Evo Morales traveled to China. Its been downhill ever since…
Greta anointed. The celebrity semi savant
Meet Greta. Ideological crusades rely on the moral exaltation of the “anointed” unquestionable celebrity child semi savant. Here she is
Green New Deal, but for who?
A Green New Deal. But for who? Beware IMF policies prey on small countries to “promote a greener world” with  “green quantitative easing”
India, America and the S-400
🇮🇳 India, America and the S-400. First the bad news 🚀 it works.
The Russian made anti aircraft system is mounted on 8Ă—8 highly mobile cross-country tucks called a Transporter Erector Launcher
Carbon: Government intervention vs. the free market
Carbon: Should we let the government pick winners and assemble cartels? And should we let the cartels pick governments?
No BS Review. Survivor. Island of the Idols. Season 39
I have watched every season of Survivor. Not just what’s in the U.S, but also Australian Survivor, New Zealand, South Africa. It’s a family thing for me, a standing dinner date with my sister.
No BS Review. Survivor, season 39. Island of the Idols.
I have a simple rating system: DON’T SEE IT, SEE IT, WHATEV.
Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, but here
The GREAT LEAP FORWARD and CULTURAL REVOLUTION. Here’s a quick history of what happened in China. Is it happening here, but different?