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| The Daily Bell | Sunday, 15 January 2012 |
And I fear we are headed down the road toward the end of the United States as a traditional nation, which is one people, one nation, under God, indivisible.
| International Herald Tribune | Tuesday, 22 November 2011 |
Here in the United States, according to the same survey, 60 percent of Americans over 50 believe “our culture is superior.”
I’m not sure what’s more terrifying: the new French modesty or an old U.S. delusion.
| International Herald Tribune | Monday, 21 November 2011 |
America has more than 50 formal military allies, while China has none.
| The Guardian | Sunday, 06 November 2011 |
US officials speculated as to what might be done to block this vital corridor, but it was Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia who surprised them by saying that the solution was to harness Islamic forces. The Americans were intrigued, but could not deal with such people. Leave that to me, Bandar retorted. Hannah noted that "Bandar working without reference to US interests is clearly cause for concern. But Bandar working as a partner … against a common Iranian enemy is a major strategic asset." Bandar got the job.
| Financial Times | Saturday, 27 August 2011 |
Not within the economics profession. There, deductive reasoning based on logical inference from a specific set of a priori deductions is “exactly the right way to do things”. What is absurd is not the use of the deductive method but the claim to exclusivity made for it.
| Financial Times | Tuesday, 23 August 2011 |
The fundamental blow to the ownership society, however, was the collapse of the bubble economy. Individual savings accounts, of the kind ownership society advocated, were devastated by the crash......Yet the story that President Bill Clinton and British prime minister Tony Blair told of college-educated individuals thriving in global labour markets was wrong. To begin with, America’s professionals owe their relative affluence largely to their protection from offshoring or competition with immigrants.
| Financial Times | Friday, 19 August 2011 |
Economic performance, 20 years later.
| Financial Times | Friday, 29 July 2011 |
The US rebellion against British rule was motivated, at least in part, by the colonists’ concern about the possibility that the “central” (ie, British) government might obstruct their dispossession of the native population and their practice of slavery.
| Global Research | Sunday, 24 July 2011 |
While income and lifestyle are all relative, an after-tax income between $6.6k and $8.3k per month today will hardly buy the fantasy lifestyles that Americans see on TV and would consider “rich”. In many areas in California or the East Coast, this positions one squarely in the hard working upper-middle class, and strict budgeting will be essential. An income of $190k post tax or $15.8k per month will certainly buy a nice lifestyle but is far from rich.