Americans have been swimming in a pool of negativity for all of 2016. It’s not hard to understand why. The overarching event of the year has been the presidential election, which will be over by the time you read this, and hopefully will result in...
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In the days when Britannia ruled some 25% of the world’s land, it did so because it also ruled the oceans. Both in military and commercial respects, Britain’s sea power was unmatched for over one hundred years. But the long reach of maritime power involved...
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The movie “Black Hawk Down” recounts the 1993 U.S. special forces mission into Somalia whose goal was to destabilize the government and bring food and humanitarian aid to the starving population. Using Black Hawk helicopters to lower the soldiers onto the ground, an unexpected attack...
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It is a moment of great soul searching in modern day finance, as the standards upon which the Wall Street edifice has been built for the last six decades are being manipulated into a form that we thought could never exist. Specifically, central banks around...
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