Tag: economic growth

After leaving Congress early, Mike Gallagher joins Packers-Microsoft venture capital firm

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After leaving Congress early, Mike Gallagher joins Packers-Microsoft venture capital firm

Gallagher’s move comes after media reports initially linked Gallagher to the data analytics company Palantir after he announced in late March he would leave Congress in mid-April — before the end of his current term. But when asked by the Journal Sentinel last month about the Palantir rumors, Gallagher dismissed them as “propaganda.

Related:

TitletownTech: Welcomes former U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher as senior strategic advisor

Washington’s Proxy War in Myanmar Continues Along China’s Borders

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Overshadowed by ongoing fighting in Eastern Europe and the Middle East as well as growing tensions between the US and China, the ongoing conflict in Myanmar nonetheless constitutes a critical component of what is a larger global conflict.

Depicted by Western governments and Western media as an isolated, internal conflict between a “military dictatorship” and the forces of “democracy,” in actuality the conflict represents decades of Anglo-American attempts to reassert Western control over the former British colony.

Washington’s Proxy War in Myanmar Continues Along China’s Borders

Inflation and interest rates: the US experience

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Once again the US Federal Reserve is in a quandary. Does it cut its policy interest rate soon in order to relieve pressure on debt servicing costs for consumers and businesses and perhaps avoid a stagflationary economy (ie low or no growth alongside higher inflation); or does it hold its current interest rate for borrowing in order to make sure inflation falls towards its target of 2% a year?

Inflation and interest rates: the US experience

Sean Gervasi, 1992 lecture: The US Strategy to Dismantle the USSR

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Sean Gervasi, 1992 lecture: The US Strategy to Dismantle the USSR

Related RAND Corporation documents:

Economic factors affecting Soviet foreign and defense policy: a summary outline

The Costs of the Soviet Empire

Sitting on bayonets : the Soviet defense burden and the slowdown of Soviet defense spending

Moscow’s Economic Dilemma: The Burden of Soviet Defense

Exploiting ‘fault lines’ in the Soviet empire: an overview

Agenda of lies: PM slams groups creating false narratives to sabotage Funan Techo Canal project (Cambodia)

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Prime Minister Hun Manet has lashed out at anti-government groups which are creating false narratives to sabotage the Funan Techo Canal project.

Agenda of lies: PM slams groups creating false narratives to sabotage Funan Techo Canal project (VIDEO)

Related:

US-Funded Radio Free Asia: Cambodia’s canal project would link its coast with the Mekong River

Stimson Center Funding Sources

Viet Ecology Foundation Tax Filings (only one from 2007)

Kim Sok

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

The BRI is Not a Debt Trap!