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economic crisis 2022

This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...

US inflation is rising. In March, US inflation rose to 8.5%, compared to 2.6% one year earlier. We can expect that number to keep...
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This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...

This article on the 2022 Economic Crisis was broken into two parts because we all know the other guys can’t handle reading more than...
famine in east africa

A Cloud of Devastation Moves Across East Africa

The crises are accumulating in East Africa, with no end in sight. The famine in East Africa is the latest and deadliest pinnacle of...
worst food crisis

The Worst Global Food Crisis Since World War II – We Are Entering Phase...

In my 2019 book How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos, I outlined three core crises found at the root of almost every...
none of it worked

None of It Worked

When the coronavirus pandemic first began to surge, I posited a thought on one of the podcast episodes in those early days. How could...
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

This book is in the lead for my best read of 2022 so far. For those interested in international relations, geopolitics, energy, and just...

Watching A Crisis Unfold in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s security forces confronted protesters over the weekend, raising alarms of more instability in the Asian island nation. The country is facing a...

How America’s Best and Brightest Set the Stage for Vladimir Putin’s Rise

This weekend President Biden “forcefully” called for regime change in Russia. Speaking of Vladimir Putin, the US President said, “For God’s sake, this man...
China-Taiwan Threat backgrounder

Backgrounder to The China-Taiwan Threat

China flew a record-breaking number of military flights into Taiwanese airspace to open the month of October. The unprecedented 150 flights included bombers, anti-submarine...
dark history of the nobel prize

The Dark History of the Nobel Prize (They Prefer You Forget)

Last week the Nobel Prize Committee began announcing its 2021 recipients. The highly esteemed Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish...