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… Apparently Brazil is a hot investment place now (?) It is more about the offset part than the jet deal. France, Sweden and USA are all lobbying to get the jet deal as aviation is tied into potentially big tourism deals. (36 planes) I was just on a call with a guy in Sweden who i...

…rd Quarter 2015 issue of Global Foresight: Investing for the Ages), in the short run, it is eclipsed by economic cycles and political changes. For instance, Japan’s and Germany’s economies have each been performing well over the last few years, despite being the second and third...

… a key tactic. Translated into foreign policy, by its nature United Front work involves lobbying, coercion, co-optation and other influence operations—some of which are legitimate, others of which are not. China’s self-declared role as the representative of all Chinese people aro...

…December 2016. Source: Investment Strategy Group, Bloomberg, National Bureau of Economic Research. In our 2016 Outlook and our 2016 Insight report, Walled In: China’s Great Dilemma, we stated that China was unlikely to have a hard landing over the next two years (i.e., 2016 and...

… best professionals you can find. Not politicians. They always have personal agendas. Focus is everything. Distractions and arguments and infighting can be fatal.” Philip recommended one professional, in particular, to get us started: Stanley Greenberg, the pollster who had advi...

are transferred to the private sector, particularly because they have lived under an intense propaganda campaign against the capitalist exploiters. They know that socialism leads to disaster, but they believe that capitalism is an activity of hungry wolves. Threats 1. A substan...

B At the time of writing, Bashar still seems to have a chance, if a slim one, of stabilising the situation and perhaps earning a further spell in power -- but only if he calls a halt to the killing of protesters and takes the lead of the reform movement, and in effect carries ou...

… drug costs reach the threshold for catastrophic coverage by Medicare), (iii) an approval process for generic biologics and granting exclusive marketing rights to original manufacturers for 12 years, (iv) increased drug rebates to the Medicaid program, and (v) disclosure requirem...

…NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was Donald Trump's right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist violence in Charlottesville — is preparing to march on Brussels. Launching, he told the...

encouraging investment over consumption and plowback over dividends, particularly in the last half century, have led to dangerous overinvestment in the private sector. The empty eyesores and bulldozer bills of 2008 are symptoms of pro- investment policies founded in many countrie...

…dent Xi’s ‘Four Comprehensives’ August 25, 2015 HOST: Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is an advisor to the Chinese government and author of How China’s Leaders Think and he joins me now from Beijing. A cut in interest rates today - but in China any economic decision is always colored w...

…there are now 110 (plus 501 Confucius Classrooms in secondary schools) across the United States.* For secondary schools and colleges that have no or little other coverage of China on campus, CIs are an important resource. Sponsored by the Hanban, an organization directly under th...

BREAKING DOWN DEMOCRACY: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians continue their investigation of these techniques and experiment with ways to combat them. We also urge more intense coverage of Beijing's efforts to undermine democratic norms in neighboring states...

…,000 innocent victims died in the 9-11 attacks. As of early 2011, some where between 900,000 to over a million soldiers and civilians have died in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the war. This is excessive. This is no longer revenge. This is senseless brutality. On one reading, Pope...

…tions Another Don Quixote Thanksgiving. Every year at Thanksgiving’, we look in-depth at an issue that affects markets and portfolios. Last year, we examined the unraveling situation in Europe. Unfortunately, most concerns we expressed last year have been borne out, and are gett...