jackhutton 🇺🇸Dec 20
“The renminbi has a long way to go until it can match the dollar in terms of the depth and liquidity of U.S. capital markets and the ease of moving across borders. But its biggest impediment may be the character of the Chinese state: increasingly authoritarian and unconstrained by the rule of law. ”
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#usdollar #chokepoints #edwardfishman #china
jackhutton 🇺🇸Oct 25

We need to remind ourselves--Trump has never had a mandate:

“On November 8, 2016, just 77,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin delivered the presidency to Trump. The Obama team was in shock. One of the main reasons they had held back on punishing Putin for his interference in the election was their belief that Clinton would win. ”

Excerpt From
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman

#chokepoints #edwardfishman #books #russia #trump #clinton #Russianinterference #bookstodon

jackhutton 🇺🇸Oct 11

“It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire,” wrote Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Polish-born former U.S. national security advisor, in 1994. An Oxbridge don put it in less delicate terms: “With the Ukraine, Russia is a USA; without, she is a Canada—mostly snow.”

Excerpt From
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman

#chokepoints #edwardFishman #ukraine #russia