Category: Business
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SERBIA: SHIT HAPPENS
A Dream Come True or A Nightmare Yet to Unfold? What a nightmare it has turned out to be so far. It was an authentic way to acquaint myself with the national character of the country in which I was born. In the end, I never felt more like a stranger in Serbia than in…
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BITCOIN AND THE PRESIDENCY: A NEW KIND OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
When Trump Media announced yesterday a $2 billion Bitcoin acquisition, the news was framed as strategic innovation. But this isn’t just another corporate pivot—it’s a potential conflict of interest of presidential proportions.
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FED CHAIRMAN SAYS HE WON’T RESIGN EVEN IF PRESIDENT ASKS HIM TO
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Thursday he would refuse to leave office early if incoming President Donald Trump tried to oust him, adding he cannot be legally removed anyway. Speaking at a press conference following the latest meeting of the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, Powell was asked if he’d exit central bank leadership if…
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THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY OF THE WEB
Unlike human babies, whose conception is a matter of seconds but gestation and birth last usually nine months, scientific ideas take but a second to get conceived and years to actually get created. The now ubiquitous Internet is one such a baby. As close as anyone can pinpoint the exact delivery date, the Internet is…
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PLUTOCRACY BLOSSOMS AROUND THE WORLD
THE RICH GET RICHER, THE POOR GET POORER, THE MIDDLE CLASS SHRINKS This week, the global “elite” are meeting again in Davos, a posh Swiss ski resort, for their annual shindig about global economy. And about how to get richer yet. In their honor, the anti-poverty charity Oxfam issued a new report which showed that over…
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US SUPREME COURT REVISITED
WITH TWO STRIKES IN TWO DAYS, THE SUPREME COURT BROUGHT THE LIBERAL DICTATORSHIP TO ITS KNEES ROE V. WADE, NEW YORK GUN LAW OVERTURNED – TRUMP SCORING VICTORIES EVEN AFTER ELECTORAL DEFEAT – HIS SUPREME COURT APPOINTEES ARE SHAPING AMERICA IN HIS SHAPE Eight years ago, during the second term of the Obama presidency, we…
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AN AMERICAN FROM SERBIA: “THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT”
AN AMERICAN FROM SERBIA: “THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT” WILL NOTHING EVER CHANGE IN SERBIA? (for the better) So the Serbian cauldron is boiling again. People are in the streets protesting against the regime, and the police and government goons are beating them again. Just as happened in…
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AN AMERICAN IN SERBIA: WHAT LIVING IN BELGRADE IS LIKE AFTER 50+ YEARS IN AMERICA
Three years ago, I arrived in Serbia. The idea was to see what living in my native city for about six months would be like after spending half a century in America. Well, the best laid plans of mice and men… Three months after my arrival, a temporary living arrangement became a permanent wedlock. I…
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9/11 – 20 YEARS ON
MISERABLE FAILURE AND TERRIBLE COSTS OF “WAR ON TERROR” The US “war on terror” has cost the taxpayers some $5.8 trillion, not counting the cost of hundreds of thousands of lost lives. What else could have the US government achieved had it spent it on peaceful purposes.
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“ETHNIC CLEANSING” THE AMERICAN WAY
THE BROWNING OF AMERICA Washington’s demographic war on white Americans enters the sixth decade, and the results are devastating. This morning, I perused the latest statistics from the 2020 US Census. In a nutshell, the data from the US Census Bureau show the percentage of white Americans declining sooner than demographers expected, while Asian, Hispanic…
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