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basic notion
I am not an insider, and so I read the papers, watch the networks (more like Jon Stewart, but OK), and poke about on the internet to get my news.
Just like most folks, I make my judgments about what's going on in the world on the basis of this information. This blog is an attempt to record some of them.
Because I've had some experience in international affairs, I might have a few counterintuitive reads on things that others might find interesting--or at least I hope so.
But, caveat emptor, since I have no inside information, the best I can do is assume:
a) that the actors being analyzed are behaving rationally, and
b) that the facts as they are reported in open sources are pretty much the facts.
Both are irrational assumptions.
Just like most folks, I make my judgments about what's going on in the world on the basis of this information. This blog is an attempt to record some of them.
Because I've had some experience in international affairs, I might have a few counterintuitive reads on things that others might find interesting--or at least I hope so.
But, caveat emptor, since I have no inside information, the best I can do is assume:
a) that the actors being analyzed are behaving rationally, and
b) that the facts as they are reported in open sources are pretty much the facts.
Both are irrational assumptions.
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links of interest
- US State Department List of Country Pages
- CIA's World Fact Book
- Energy Information Agency
- International Energy Agency
- OPEC
- US Census Bureau International Data Base
- Federal Highway Administration
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Naked Capitalism
- News N Economics
- Follow the Money
- Jesse's Cafe Americain
- VOX
- Economist's View
- Fistful of Euros
- MEI's Editor's Blog
- Frontier Markets
- Les Carnets de Clarisse
- Iraq Oil Report
- Jihadica
- Real Time Economics
- Informed Comment
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"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values."
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