Knock Out Punch
Our strategic objectives in the war, such as they were, have already been accomplished: We went. We saw. We kicked butt.
The Daily Reckoning Australia
Night at the Museum
Everyone knows that the feds are already insolvent, with spending commitments eight times as much as their revenues. But if you can’t spend money you don’t have on war, what can you spend it on?
Nuclear is the last great power standing
We didn’t have to learn this lesson the hard way. But now that we have, the need for nuclear is too obvious to ignore any longer. Wake up, Australia.
The Iranian campaign – The bigger picture that many missed
Yesterday’s announcements from the US and Iran about a potential de-escalation of tensions brought optimism back into the market as oil tumbled. Confused about why? Perhaps you missed the actual objectives of this campaign…
Shock and Aw Shucks
The pound sank into the mud of the Somme and never recovered. By the end of WWI, Britain was deeply in debt. It had to give up India in 1947. And then, in 1956, it was unable to control the Suez Canal.
Edge of Empire
The British empire came to a final, wimpy end in the Suez Crisis of 1956. ‘Allied’ with France and Israel, Britain set out to take back the canal from Egypt. The three allies attacked.
