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Finally, "European governments are rethinking their reliance on the United States as a strategic ally against Russia." It's about time. http://latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-europe-20180718-story.html# When will the glorious day come that Europe no longer considers the US available to save its ...

Tax cuts will increase aggregate demand as you put money into people's pockets. They will either spend or invest. On the other hand, when you cut taxes, you need to cut spending or you are not being fiscally prudent. This will reduice demand from the public sector. So. it depends on how efficiently...

You are ideologically blinkered, Neverfail. Sorry cass but I have long had the impression that it is YOU, not I, who is the ideologically fixated one among us. As for me I do not see myself as having any fixed ideological commitment - unless you consider freethinking to be "ideology". When will you...

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Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:14 am

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Sat Jul 21, 2018 5:17 am

Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia
By PEPE ESCOBAR JULY 21, 2018

http://www.atimes.com/article/heres-the ... to-russia/

Don't forget to wash your hair after you pull your head out of the sand...

Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia By PEPE ESCOBAR JULY 21, 2018 http://www.atimes.com/article/heres-the-real-reason-the-us-must-talk-to-russia/ Future historians may well identify Russian President Vladimir Putin’s landmark March 1 speech as the ultimate game-changer in the 21st-cen...

(Barack has one r, by the way. I'll have to insist you spell our American names properly!) I stand corrected Steve. You may not even use this word in the American regional dialect of the English mother-tongue, but every time I hear his given name it reminds me of this verb commonly used out here: h...

Putin's interests lie in pleasing a handful of oiligarchs, not in the affairs of the Russian state. The Russian state is merely a vehicle for their enrichment and their politics are only a facade to secure their revenue. Where is the reliable data supporting this idea of yours?... Do you deny that ...

Putin's interests lie in pleasing a handful of oiligarchs, not in the affairs of the Russian state. The Russian state is merely a vehicle for their enrichment and their politics are only a facade to secure their revenue. Where is the reliable data supporting this idea of yours?... Do you deny that ...

As you see, labour benefits next to nothing from productivity gains, which means that they all go to benefit capital. Even accepting the charts from your dubious sources at face value, employment is much safer than entrepreneurship, so it's not surprising that a lot of the reward for successful ris...

Milo wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:18 pm

Putin's interests lie in pleasing a handful of oiligarchs, not in the affairs of the Russian state. The Russian state is merely a vehicle for their enrichment and their politics are only a facade to secure their revenue.

Where is the reliable data supporting this idea of yours?...