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Michael Krieger: Three Major Imbalances (Financial, Trust, Geopolitical)

Three Major Imbalances – Financial, Trust and Geopolitical The trust imbalance between rulers and the ruled has become so massive it’s all but guaranteed to detonate in a variety of unexpected and consequential ways in the years ahead. The election of Donald Trump was just the first pubic manifestation of this well deserved lack of …

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Charles Hugh Smith: The Unraveling – How We Faked Financial Wealth and Lost Everything Else (Social Capital, Earth, Etc.)

The Unraveling Quickens Even if we don’t measure the erosion of intangible capital, the social and political consequences of this impoverishment are manifesting in all sorts of ways. The central thesis of my new book Will You Be Richer or Poorer? is the financial “wealth” we’ve supposedly gained (or at least a few of us have gained) in …

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Steven Aftergood: CRS US Financial Assistance to Israel

U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $142.3 billion (current, or noninflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding. PDF (40 Pages): RL33222 US Financial Assistance to Israel