We have maintained for years that India is an Electocracy and NOT a democracy. Not based on the simple definition of a democracy being “of the people, by the people & for the people“. All India allows is for the 1,250,000,000 Indians to elect 545 members of the lower house of Parliament to rule…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Yes, we did describe the meeting at the White House between President Trump & Prime Minister Modi as Better Than Expected and Strategic, but isn’t it hyperbole to compare a nascent America-India relationship with the enduring & deep relationship between America & Israel? Perhaps yes or perhaps No? Israel is one of America’s deepest…
Ian Bremmer is a well know pandit, political scientist, professor, geopolitics consultant, entrepreneur & executive. Any one of these would put Mr. Bremmer out of our league but put them all together & Ian Bremmer is some one in a different galaxy we can only gaze upon in wonderment. Despite his exalted status, Mr….
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with…
As Prime Minister Modi sat down for dinner with President Trump three weeks ago, China sent its soldiers in a major incursion into Bhutan’s border with Chumbi Valley, a very strategic area at the intersection of Chinese-occupied Tibet, India & Bhutan. The incursion was to build a road from Chinese-occupied Tibet into the Doklam plateau…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…
Statesmen are often portrayed as serious even dour men who rarely smile in their pursuit of their aims for their countries. President Nixon & Secretary Kissinger are universally recognized as Statemen & so are European diplomats of yore, notably the Prince of diplomats, Talleyrand, who said “speech has given to man to conceal his…
India & Israel upgraded their relationship this week to a strategic partnership, a partnership that rests on common values, shared sadness & the enormous opportunity each nation sees in the other. Rarely has a visit been so successful as PM Modi’s visit to Israel this week. PM Netanyahu set aside his regular duties to…
Summary – A top-down review of interesting calls and comments made last week in Treasuries, monetary policy, economics, stocks, bonds & commodities. TAC is our acronym for Tweets, Articles, & Clips – our basic inputs for this article. Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting Tweets, Articles, Video Clips with our comments. This is an article…