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POLITICS AND POLICY Behind Debt Deal: Silence, Distrust and Hardball Both parties focused mostly on trying to kill any plans tha...

AMERICA'S DEBT-CEILING DEBACLE / PROJECT SYNDICATE

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JP MORGAN'S PERFECT SILVER MANIPATION CANNOT LAST FOREVER / GOLDSILVERWORLDS

Ted Butler: JP Morgan’s Perfect Silver Manipulation Cannot Last Forever Silver manipulation – a lot has been written about the subj...

WASHINGTON TRUCE STRETCHES OUT DEBT CRISIS, LEAVES ECONOMY IN LIMBO / THE TELEGRAPH

Washington truce stretches out debt crisis, leaves economy in limbo Analysts describe festering political conflict as "a Sword of Da...

AMERICA THE RECKLESS / PROJECT SYNDICATE

America the Reckless Michael Spence Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics at NYU’s Stern School...

THE DAMAGE DONE / THE NEW YORK TIMES OP EDITORIAL

October 17, 2013 The Damage Done By  PAUL KRUGMAN The government is reopening, and we didn’t default on our de...

WHAT IS A DICTATOR ? / STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE

What is a Dictator? Global Affairs WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013 - 04:03 Stratfor By Robert D. Kaplan What is a dicta...

REPUBLICANS WALKED INTO OBAMA'S TRAP / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OP EDITORIAL

Republicans Walked Into Obama's Trap His goal was to discredit the GOP before 2014. The defunders fell for it. By   ...

REVOKING AMERICA'S EXORBITANT PRIVILEGE / PROJECT SYNDICATE

José Antonio Ocampo José Antonio Ocampo is Professor at Columbia University, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for E...