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In case you are not familiar with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman’s take on our current fiscal crisis, he thinks the only way to avoid a longer recession (or possibly a Long Depression) is to have government spend our way back into prosperity. “Spend now, while the economy remains depressed; save later, once it has [...]

This somewhat dated but still relevant article, “U.S. foreign policy:  Waiting on a Sun King,” by Edward Luce and Daniel Dombey published at FT.com in March 2010 sheds some disturbing light onto Obama’s approach to foreign policy, which is described as a highly centralized process in which “all roads lead to and from him.” This [...]