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Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th

After World War II, America and its allies put in place a set of alliances, institutions and power structures to rebuild war-ravaged countries, create geopolitical stability and generate global econom

There are policies that seem to work and some that don’t. But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they kno

The troubled history of US-China relations

The world is full of recurring patterns, not just in the natural world but in the social realm, too. There is the boom-bubble-bust cycle of the stockmarket. There is what we call the Primary Trend, in

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