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Fox Business Network– The Good Ship Hillary is Listing Left as She Steams Toward California

Gone are echoes of coronation as Democrats brace for a divisive convention. Despite near certainty of clearing the delegate hurdle, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ greatest political weapon: Being the once underestimated candidate. Just eight years ago the once presumptive nominee Clinton scraped together victory after victory well […]

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What You Won’t Hear At The Debates

Here’s what you won’t get at either the Happy Hour Debate or the Main Event of the top ten candidates: Real solutions for the middle class crisis we face — our most central issue. Between Democrats and Republicans over twenty candidates have thrown their hats in the ring — every one claims to be the champion of the middle […]

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The China Syndrome

Why would the Chinese government pump up their stock market to retail investors? Short answer—to create a middle class wealth effect and boost the chance for highly indebted companies to refund borrowings through equity issuance. Never airbrush the Communist Party out of the Chinese markets—for all of the freeing up of individual access there remains […]

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One Great Question….

Trouble always starts with a great question, and one sparked my book American Mojo: Lost and Found. Just as my last book Becoming China’s Bitch and Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now entered final edits, I was strolling the Bund in Shanghai. Beneath the snapping red flags a young Chinese business man asked […]

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A Requiem of Three Words

Let us now praise famous men. We have lost one of such extraordinary and exceptional generosity that I ask all who have decency in their hearts to pause and consider what we might do together to fill the vacuum. I ask one more thing as well—that we focus all our energies on the pure specialness […]

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Gentlemen, Start Your Engines….

Breathtaking nuclear disaster in Japan, the nation the world has watched struggle with tsunami, then earthquake, then a radioactive cloud of fear, led its leaders to massively intervene. Historians comb through wreckage and political detritus to discern who knew what when. But here is what the Japanese and the world has already figured out. Leaders […]

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Portrait of the Artist

Art is juxtaposition. Consider the funny and warm exchanges as George and Laura Bush unveiled their portraits at the White House with the President and Mrs. Obama. Remarks were by turns respectful, warm and on many occasions exceedingly funny–Even some folks less instantly charming than Barack Obama found ways to charm their audience. Respect and […]

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Fox Business Network– The Good Ship Hillary is Listing Left as She Steams Toward California

Gone are echoes of coronation as Democrats brace for a divisive convention. Despite near certainty of clearing the delegate hurdle, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is facing Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ greatest political weapon: Being the once underestimated candidate. Just eight years ago the once presumptive nominee Clinton scraped together victory after victory well […]

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What You Won’t Hear At The Debates

Here’s what you won’t get at either the Happy Hour Debate or the Main Event of the top ten candidates: Real solutions for the middle class crisis we face — our most central issue. Between Democrats and Republicans over twenty candidates have thrown their hats in the ring — every one claims to be the champion of the middle […]

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The China Syndrome

Why would the Chinese government pump up their stock market to retail investors? Short answer—to create a middle class wealth effect and boost the chance for highly indebted companies to refund borrowings through equity issuance. Never airbrush the Communist Party out of the Chinese markets—for all of the freeing up of individual access there remains […]

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book2

One Great Question….

Trouble always starts with a great question, and one sparked my book American Mojo: Lost and Found. Just as my last book Becoming China’s Bitch and Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now entered final edits, I was strolling the Bund in Shanghai. Beneath the snapping red flags a young Chinese business man asked […]

Continue Reading ·

A Requiem of Three Words

Let us now praise famous men. We have lost one of such extraordinary and exceptional generosity that I ask all who have decency in their hearts to pause and consider what we might do together to fill the vacuum. I ask one more thing as well—that we focus all our energies on the pure specialness […]

Continue Reading ·

Gentlemen, Start Your Engines….

Breathtaking nuclear disaster in Japan, the nation the world has watched struggle with tsunami, then earthquake, then a radioactive cloud of fear, led its leaders to massively intervene. Historians comb through wreckage and political detritus to discern who knew what when. But here is what the Japanese and the world has already figured out. Leaders […]

Continue Reading ·

Portrait of the Artist

Art is juxtaposition. Consider the funny and warm exchanges as George and Laura Bush unveiled their portraits at the White House with the President and Mrs. Obama. Remarks were by turns respectful, warm and on many occasions exceedingly funny–Even some folks less instantly charming than Barack Obama found ways to charm their audience. Respect and […]

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