Gross US Miscalculation on PRC's Asian Infra Bank

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Obama's international economic diplomacy team is hard at work. I suppose that if I were in their place, I too would exhibit the sort of ... Continue reading →

Europe Ditches US? Brits & PRC's Infrastructure Bank

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"GEORGE OSBORNE - United Kingdom": your seat is reserved at the next AIIB gathering. [ See breaking news at this post's end on... Continue reading →

China's Century or Its Lost Century? The Japan Analogy

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Once the Rockefeller Center--and the future-were supposedly Japan's. Same with China? I am old enough to remember the go-go days when Ja... Continue reading →

US Plan to Strangle China's World Bank Rival, Pt 2

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Today the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was born. This is a continuation of a previous post on the US wanting Chinese competi... Continue reading →

FX Interventionski: Russian Ruble Amid Oil Rout

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Poor Russia; it always pick the worst time to have a crisis.  The trouble with being a commodity-dependent country is that putting all your ... Continue reading →

Jeff Koons & Hokum as America's Defining Characteristic

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To understand America, explain why "Orange Balloon Dog" is worth $58.4 million . At best, Americanism is a good-natured kind of hu... Continue reading →

Atlantic City or Detroit: Which Epitomizes US Decline?

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They partied till they literally dropped. Thousands of years into the future, when archaeologists sift through the ruins of the United State... Continue reading →

IMF's Bad Guys: Quota Reform Without the USA

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As any number of blog posts in the IPE Zone will attest, there is no finer pantomime villain than the United States [ insert your favorite v... Continue reading →

Yanks Say: World Needs Less America But More Trade

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The United States has the reverse Midas touch: everything it touches turns into, well, garbage alike its near-zero growth jokeonomy. After ... Continue reading →

Google Maps & Cartographic Discrimination Against Africa

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Oh, the burdens of having ignorant Westerners relate to Africa--a continent that is largely a mystery to them. US television network CBS rec... Continue reading →

Why China Holds Upper Hand Over US in Asia for 2014

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Or so the Nikkei Asian Review believes . And the reasons for China reasserting its sphere of influence in the region are straightforward. On... Continue reading →

China's 'Maritime Silk Road' as a Hegemonic Project

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 The wrangling over both the US government shutdown and the debt ceiling caused Barack Obama to cancel his attendance at the annual Asia-Pac... Continue reading →