A Foreign Policy magazine newsletter reports on criticism of Macron’s China trip. It says: Some allies have blasted French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China last week as a political blunder in which Macron—currently unpopular back home—was feted by his… Read More »Macron’s China Trip
The following is from an email newsletter by Fareed Zakaria: At Americas Quarterly, editor in chief Brian Winter writes that critics of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) see him as paranoid about political threats lurking… Read More »Lula’s Problems
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) has published a note on President Reagan’s “Star Wars” antiballistic missile initiative on the 40th anniversary of its proposal on March 23, 1983. It quotes several people who were involved in the… Read More »My Oral History of Star Wars
This article in the New York Times describes the reactions of surviving American embassy hostages to the disclosure of the Reagan administration’s negotiations to hold the hostages captive until Reagan was elected. Some doubt that it happened or that it… Read More »Reaction to Disclosure on Carter Hostage Crisis
CATO published the following summary of the current status of the federal debt:
I am worried that my previous post may have been too favorable to bankers. Bankers are not universally loved. They have a reputation for foreclosing on decent people having a hard time financially, for not lending to anyone except those… Read More »Good Bank, Bad Bank
This article in The Economist magazine describes well what happened with Silicon Valley Bank and some other impending bank failures. It also describes the other side of the banking business, which is getting less attention today. The lesson of SVB… Read More »SVB and Bank Profits
In his Washington Post column, Fareed Zakaria says that Washington has succumbed to groupthink on China. He says: Washington has embraced a wide-ranging consensus on China that has turned into a classic example of groupthink. Today, U.S.-China relations are a… Read More »Fareed: Groupthink on China
