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Robin Wigglesworth opens his essay by describing the board game Eternal Debt that gained popularity after 2001 in Argentina to describe its ‘tempestuous, on-off relationship with the IMF.’ The game underscores the tempestuous, on-off relationship Argentina has long had with … Continue reading →

It was a stunning reversal for the 59-year-old former businessman who came to power in December 2015 vowing to make Argentina a “normal country”, after 12 years of leftist rule by Mr Kirchner and his wife Cristina Fernández. Not ‘normal … Continue reading →

Headline:Argentine peso sinks to new low as sell-off resumes Sub-headline: Decline comes despite central bank raising interest rates to 40 per cent 4  hours ago Markets need to see a radical tightening in fiscal policy in order to stabilise the … Continue reading →

As a reader of this excerpt of Ronan Farrow’s book War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence on Richard Holbrooke, he must have a prodigious memory, or be like Samuel Pepys spending many hours recording … Continue reading →

I’ve only read one of Vargas Llosa books ‘The Temptation of the Impossible Victor Hugo and Les Misérables’ published in English translation in 2007 by Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8358.html I had read the Penguin paperback of Les Misérables , and found Vargas … Continue reading →

With not too many changes this paragraph could very well be said of many politicians from Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan and Thatcher. Even Tony Blankly used to engage in the rhetoric of resentment, when his usual political bluster was exhausted: as … Continue reading →

Mr. Rachman outdoes himself in this second paragraph of his anguished love letter to M. 37%. And the quotes from CIA shill Jeff Bezos’ Neo-Con dominated Washington Post, or from John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei’s political gossip sheet Politico … Continue reading →

After their obsequious preliminaries, The Editorial Board of The New York Times frames their milquetoast critique of Neo-Confederate/Originalist Fellow Traveler Anthony Kennedy, as residing in ‘part of his charm’. Call this not just the exercise of the obsequious, but of … Continue reading →

This concluding paragraph of Mr. Divine’s April 13 , 2018 essay leave no doubt where he stands on Orbán, as not just the harbinger of  decline, but where ‘Democracy Disappears’  in the America of Trump. We cannot take anything for … Continue reading →

I went grocery shopping a little after 6 AM this morning, and on my way out of the store, I caught a glimpse of today’s Wall Street Journal front page. I stopped, arrested by this political obscenity. There was M. … Continue reading →