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August 4, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The World Next Week: Debt and Debate
President Barack Obama signs the Budget Control Act of 2011 in the Oval Office on August 2, 2011. The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the continued fallout from and reacti…
January 10, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
TWE Remembers: Sen. Arthur Vandenberg’s Conversion to Internationalism
In a post earlier today, I mentioned that Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI), a leading isolationist voice on Capitol Hill in the years before World War II, dismissed the Ludlow Amendment as a terrib…
December 22, 2010
Politics and Government
Turn Out the Lights
Somewhere up above Dandy Don Meredith is singing "Turn Out the Lights, The Party’s Over." Unless Senators Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl can find some of the magic that graced the Philadelphia Eagles …
March 8, 2012
Politics and Government
The World Next Week: The One-Year Anniversary of the Tsunami Disaster in Japan
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the one-year anniversaries of the tsunami in Japan and the start of the Syrian uprising; British Prime Minister David Cameron’s two-day …
October 24, 2007
China
6% of Bear Stearns a day
6% of Bear Stearns a day. That is basically what the US has to sell to China to finance its current account deficit right now. Not 6% of Bear ($1 billion) every business day. 6% of Bear every si…