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How the Return of Unrestrained Capitalism Eroded the Foundations of Global Trade (Note: this post is a shortened and streamlined version of a longer essay posted here.)
With his threat to impose huge new tariffs on China tomorrow if China...
by dratler
 2 comments
on Thu May 09, 2019 at 02:59 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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Pundits are all agog at Joe Biden’s much-anticipated entry into the presidential race. Right away, he threw the gauntlet at the feet of our would-be dictator. Dis-electing Trump, Joe said, is our nation’s main task. If we can do that, Joe assured us,...
by dratler
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on Sun May 05, 2019 at 01:20 PM PDT
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[Note: the following analysis appears in my personal blog under a shorter title. I thought the issue’s importance deserved a wider audience. This post was composed before additional claims of Kavanaugh’s sexual predation came to light.]
In...
by dratler
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on Mon Sep 24, 2018 at 11:11 AM PDT
with 9 Recommends
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“The darkest hour is just before dawn.”—Old Proverb
At the end of the second day of the Kavanaugh Hearings, other news inspired a welcome sense of hope. For the first time since I woke up from surgery on November 8, 2016, only to watch Donald...
by dratler
6 comments
on Thu Sep 06, 2018 at 12:06 PM PDT
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In a recent essay on my own blog, I promised to lay out my Geezers’ strategy for supporting a “blue wave” in November. On reflection, I think it mostly boils down to one candidate and one state: Stacey Abrams of Georgia (although there are other...
by dratler
8 comments
on Fri Aug 24, 2018 at 02:58 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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