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The Twilight of the Intelligentsia

November 8, 2018

The Twilight of the Intelligentsia I promise, I didn’t time this sequence of posts so that this one would come out the morning after one of the most bitterly fought midterm elections in memory.  Nor, of course, did I have advance notice of the outcome, though it wasn’t a surprise to me that the much-ballyhooed […]

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The Economy Does Not Care Who Won The Midterm Elections

November 7, 2018

The Economy Does Not Care Who Won The Midterm Elections Over the past few weeks I received numerous requests from readers to publish my predictions on the outcome of the midterm elections, but I did not do so for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, I view the election process very differently from many […]

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U.S. Elections Are Neither Free Nor Fair. States Need to Open Their Doors to More Observers.

November 6, 2018

U.S. Elections Are Neither Free Nor Fair. States Need to Open Their Doors to More Observers. Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitor a polling place in Washington, D.C., during the presidential election on Nov. 8, 2016. Photo: Yuri Gripas/AFP/Getty Images VOTER SUPPRESSION. DISENFRANCHISEMENT. Gerrymandering. Can Tuesday’s midterms in the United […]

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What’s Behind the Erosion of Civil Society?

November 3, 2018

What’s Behind the Erosion of Civil Society? Rebuilding social capital and social connectedness is not something that can be done by governments or corporations. As the mid-term elections are widely viewed as a referendum of sorts, let’s set aside politics and ask, what’s behind the erosion of our civil society? That civil society in the U.S. […]

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Is it the Elections or Interest Rates?

October 27, 2018

Is it the Elections or Interest Rates? QUESTION: Dear Marty, Thanks for the continuous enlightening blogs about increasing interest rates and its effects on EM’s and others. Today on Bloomberg , they were discussing that the earlier 60:40 Equity bond correlation is breaking down and now it’s 100:0 i.e. both go up and down together. If […]

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