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The Fiscal Crisis of the State Revisited and Relived (opens the original)
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Peter Thiel’s Legacy -- and How It is Keeping Me Up At Night (opens the original)
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If you’re not interested in a Kafkaesque story of identity theft, stop reading right here. I’m a writer, and I try to write away my troubles.Earlier this year, I began receiving financial statements from PayPal for a bank account. I figured someone was faking the stationary, but after several months of bills, my wife told me I should call up PayPal. When I called them, they said I had made no transactions on my account, which was true, but they suggested that I might be getting the statements fr
The Democrats’ Maine Chance (opens the original)
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Michael Pettis and the Global Trade Crisis (opens the original)
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For years, Michael Pettis, a professor of finance at Beijing University and an associate at the Carnegie Endowment, has been my go-to guy on international economics. He also has fans on Capitol Hill, including Senators Josh Hawley and Tammy Baldwin, and among trade experts, including former US Trade Representatives Katherine Tai and Robert Lighthizer. For more than a decade, Pettis has been warning of the toxic economic relationship between China and the United States based a) on China’s depende
How Citizens United Supercharged the Israel Lobby (opens the original)
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In March 2006, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) denounced the essay by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” as a “a classical conspiratorial anti-Semitic analysis invoking the canards of Jewish power and Jewish control.”In their essay, which was the basis of the book of the same name that appeared the next year, Mearsheimer and Walt had been careful to distinguish the Israel lobby from a lobby by a
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