Salient to Investors: David Stockman writes: Obama’s Keynesian policies are deplorable. The Iranian nuclear deal could mark a decisive turning point in rolling back US destructive interventionism and imperial pretensions in the Middle East and the world. Iran is not hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons as shown by the 2007 National Intelligence
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Energy-related emissions were flat in 2014 for the first time in 40 years. Technology and policy innovations in energy are not happening on the scale that they need to. In 2011, federal spending on R&D as a percentage of GDP in 2011 was half
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Continued sanctions are highly unlikely to halt Iran’s nuclear program, which has expanded under for two decades under sanctions – from below 200 centrifuges in 2003 to 19,000 today. The US would effectively have to go to war with Iran to destroy its nuclear
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The pattern of Yemen’s descent into chaos is likely to repeat, possibly in more significant countries like Egypt. That pattern is repressive, secular regimes backed by the West become illegitimate, become more repressive to survive, and whose opposition becomes more extreme, religious and violent. Learning
READ MORE... →Fareed Zakaria said: The greatest vulnerability for Israel is its legal jurisdiction over 4.5 million Arabs who have neither a state nor a vote – a situation that cannot last in a democratic society. The Stockholm IPRI says Israel’s defense budget is larger than that of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: The Department of Defense cost overruns on one weapons system are more than the total defense budget of Britain and France put together. The US spends more on defense than the next 8 nations put together including China and Russia. Since 9/11 America has been
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: Defeating ISIS would require a large and sustained strategic effort from the US but without significant numbers of US ground troops. ISIS videos of executions are designed to sow terror in the minds of opponents who when facing ISIS fighters now reportedly flee rather
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said: The most important economic event of the next 10 to 20 years is what happened in Beijing, though largely ignored, particularly by the Western media. Current efforts to reform, if followed through, could take a generation to really bear fruit but Chinese agriculture, railroads,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: China does infrastructure better than anyone in the world – trains, roads, airports, subways built at amazing speed, on a grand scale and with great foresight. The HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Company, Ltd, will help finance a Nicaraguan canal at a total cost
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Eric DeMarco at Kratos Defense & Security Solutions said politicians on notice that if they don’t fix the drop in defense cuts, the country is going back into recession. Benjamin Mandel at the Bureau of Economic Analysis said on an annualized basis, defense spending for the year fell 3.1 percent from 2011. Kevin Brancato
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