The subtitle is Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond and the author is Robert Kaplan (2016).
It is very much a travelogue and trip down memory lane for the author, who first visited Romania (and surrounding countries) in the midst of the Cold War. His visit again in 2013 and 2014, as the situation in Ukraine was heating up, confirming the existence of an ongoing dispute between East and West that did not truly dissipate just because the Berlin Wall came down. This region is simply the center point for that tug of war.
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The subtitle is Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better , and the author is Lyn Alden (2023). I feel like I hav...
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In light of my previous post, here's what I'm thinking: buy some GLD $180 calls that expire 3/16/13. Right now, you can get them fo...
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I sounded "sad" in yesterday's post, but really I am pretty sanguine about the election. Change is going to come even if the ...
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I came across this really interesting chart regarding 2013 and 2014 EPS forecasts by region and globally. Note the very pronounced move fr...