If Donald Trump is elected US president it will spell the end of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. At least, that’s how a phalanx of US foreign policy pundits and establishment figures see it. Trump once again caused uproar recently with comments that were viewed as undermining a «cornerstone» of US foreign policy since the Second World War. Ahead of accepting official nomination as the Republican party presidential candidate, the billionaire property magnate told the New York Times in an interview that, if elected, he would not automatically deploy American military forces to defend another member of NATO if it were attacked. As the NYT noted … Continue reading →

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…a better title for us would be the Least Great Generation, because that’s what we were. –        Roger Simon Roger Simon is the author of I Know Best: How Moral Narcissism Is Destroying Our Republic If It Hasn’t Already.  Simon describes the defining characteristic of this generation not just as narcissistic, but something far more dangerous and pervasive: That form is moral narcissism—a pathology that underlies the whole liberal left ethic today and some of the right as well. The Pathology The short form is this: What you believe, or claim to believe or say you believe—not what you do … Continue reading →

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After today’s uneventful Fed announcement, all eyes turn to the BOJ where many anticipate some form of “helicopter money” is about to be unveiled in Japan by the world’s most experimental central bank. However, as Nomura’s Richard Koo warns, central banks may get much more than they bargained for, because helicopter money “probably marks the end of the road for believers in the omnipotence of monetary policy who have continued to press for further accommodation in the midst of a balance sheet recession, when such policies simply cannot work.” As he continues, believers “have doggedly insisted that it is possible … Continue reading →

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