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U.S. Economy 2013 – 2014
August 27, 2014, 7 Comments

The Biggest Tax Scam Ever (RollingStone) Over the next decade, corporate inversions could cost the U.S. Treasury nearly ...

SS United States
July 17, 2014, Comments Off on SS United States

Keeping a Historic Ship Afloat Once upon a time, it carried princes and potentates across the Atlantic in high style and ...

November 22 1963 – fifty years later
November 22, 2013, Comments Off on November 22 1963 – fifty years later

American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote of the assassination: “I never knew how his brief and brilliant leadership ...

U.S. history, music, myth, and literature
November 19, 2013, Comments Off on U.S. history, music, myth, and literature

Lincoln, JFK and Obama: What links the US presidents? (BBC) They are two of the most important dates in American history ...

U.S. Government Shutdown 2013
October 17, 2013, Comments Off on U.S. Government Shutdown 2013

U.S. Congress ends default threat, Obama signs debt bill (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress on Wednesday approved an 11 ...

President Obama’s 2nd term
October 1, 2013, 1 Comment

State of the Union 2013: President Obama’s address to Congress (Transcript) Why the Shutdown Looks So Bad for the GOP ...

U.S. government & governance 2012
December 31, 2012, 1 Comment

One thing we can count on with respect to this Congress is that if there is even one second left before you have to do w ...

U.S. economy 2012
December 29, 2012, 2 Comments

The Economist updates the lexicon of hedge funds In line with the rest of our industry we are making some changes to the ...

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2011-12
December 28, 2012, 5 Comments

  World Outlook for 2013 (Council on Foreign Relations) As the year draws to an end, the United States faces three majo ...

U.S. elections 2012 – the mornings after
November 30, 2012, 1 Comment

Down and Out With Ted Cruz and the GOP As Republicans regroup from electoral disaster, some — including a rising s ...

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