Tag: IMF
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The Reserve Currency and Globalization
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe Movement for a People’s Party recently published their platform, which includes the key issues in the 2016 campaign. This makes it possible to discuss each point on this platform in the context of the particulars of American policy making. In this post I want to talk about the entry, ‘Reigning in…
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Putin Comes Courting in Syria, U.S. Acts Coy
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYou may be aware that when the Syrian conflict was just getting started Assad offered to team up with the U.S. to fight ISIS. The U.S. said no thank you. Now Putin has offered to help end it with pretty much the same result. You might think the situation is too complex to…
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Agribusiness Meets Reality
Reading Time: 7 minutesI recently said that the words of those who criticize Laudato Si’ have no substance. Now I’ll try to be more specific. Laudato Si’ is a rebuke of current practices, including agribusiness, but it is not the only dissenting voice. In this post, agribusiness meets reality. My concerns about the environment are…