OOK Ok In the early days of the transition, Bannon had encouraged the Trump team to read David Halberstam’s The Best and the Brightest. (One of the few people who seem actually to have taken him up on this reading assignment was Jared Kushner.) “A very moving experience reading...
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tulers, but also puts his eyes on the wealth at their hands. During his election campaign, he literally said, “Saudi Arabia is just like 'a milk cow' and we will slaughter it when its milk runs out”. He may announce increase of the annual attribute provided by every rulers. Also,...
15 The contradictions and anomalies of U.S. foreign policy have also been on stark display in the Obama administration's differing responses to Qaddafi's and Assad's repression of their own people. Beating up Qaddafi proved doable and necessary to prevent what was viewed as pote...
Trump was already trying to curtail his schedule of meetings, limit his hours in the office, and keep his normal golf habits. Bannon’s strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he d...
Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of big crowd scenes at his inaugural ceremony. Bannon had come to rationalize Trump’s reality distortions. Trump’s hyperbole, exaggerations, flights of...
Unsteady Undertow As market observers attempt to explain the recent drop in US equities, the risks of geopolitical factors have garnered considerable attention. Potential US retaliation over the recent disappearance of a Saudi journalist has only added fuel to the fire of worrie...
[9 has said it will not run its own candidate this time but it might still throw its weight behind one of the candidates who is running.) Independent candidates can get on the ballot either by getting a certain number of endorsements by parliamentary deputies or gathering signat...
including a kindergarten teacher, in Jerusalem. On the morning of May 24, 1992, a 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl named Helena Rapp was on her way to catch the bus to school south of Tel Aviv, when another Gazan stabbed her to death. To the extent Israelis were looking for someone...
CHAPTER 2: FAST FORWARD I dropped the course on economics because | couldn't see the foundations. Not that they should be clear from the start. That isn’t how the mind works. We see, do and understand in that order. The pyramids rose four thousand years before people like Galile...
22 can be achieved only through “jihad and resistance until the Islamic regime rises.” The chaos and disappointment that follow revolutions will inevitably provide many opportunities for Al Qaeda to spread its influence. Demographic pressures, economic woes and corruption will...
February 16, 2017 In the fourth quarter of 2016, Boothbay Absolute Return Strategies, LP (the “Fund”) earned a net return of approximately +0.04%. 1,2 Since the Fund opened on July 1, 2014, it has returned 16.10%. 1,2 In that period, the Fund’s largest monthto-month drawdown has...
invasion had the effect of persuading Washington to send Philip Habib back into the diplomatic fray. With no early sign, however, of Arafat agreeing to leave, Arik now steadily tightened what amounted to a siege on west Beirut. For seven weeks in July and August, our forces pound...
Indeed, much of the art that was critical of these movements was suppressed or censored and “subversive” artists cowed, in some cases imprisoned or even worse. The liberal democratic model departed sharply from these authoritarian perspectives by presenting the alternative of fr...
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11 Uncertain market direction has challenged response to return gaps through asset allocation Political change across developed markets challenges high conviction geographic allocations outside a small number of perceived ‘safe haven’ markets. Similarly, the staggered shift to Q...