With Crimea now front and center in the news, read here how the Crimean War was the incubator for many ideas that resonate today. The telegraph was in its infancy and allowed “live” reporting from the Crimea battlefield to London. Along with the telegraph, the use of railroads for transporting troops and equipment and the […]
Ukrainian’s Income One-Third of Polish Workers’ Income
The overriding problem for the Ukraine is that the country has been run like a money making machine for the oligarchs and political cronies. Here the Cato Institute’s Dalibor Rohac lays bare the real crisis in the Ukraine. It’s now a decade since Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” brought hope that the country could be liberated from […]
An Insider’s Ukraine Look
Here at Taki’s magazine, you get to look at the Ukrainian crisis from the inside. Just before the current troubles in Ukraine began, we called a plumber to our rented flat in Paris, which smelled of mold at the time. He was Ukrainian. He told us why he had left his native country a few […]
Turn a Regional Crisis Into a Major War
Daniel Larison at The American Conservative castigates Alex Berezow for his incendiary approach to confronting Russia over the troubles in the Ukraine. Mr. Berezow seems to be advocating the World War I approach to Russia’s invasion of Crimea, and we all know how well that turned out. Alex Berezow’s approach to foreign policy might be summed up […]
Obama Promises To Lower Health Insurance Premiums by $2,500 Per Year
Hungry for Paris?
No, I’m not referring to Alexander Lobrano’s book by the same name just yet. But yes, Alec Lobrano does have a 2nd edition of his book coming out soon, and I’ll get to that in a minute. In this Hungry for Paris, I’m referring to David Lebovitz—former Chez Panisse pastry chef, as well as food […]
Putin Should Remember the 1998 Ruble Crisis and the End of Yeltsin
While troops on the ground may not be feasible to counter Vladimir Putin and Russia in Ukraine (nor should that be considered), if the powers that be are bent on retaliating against Russia for breaking international treaties by invading Ukraine, Robert Kimmit and Stephen Myrow (both former Treasury officials) point out that America’s best leverage […]
Dateline Russia: Stocks Down 11% Ruble Falls to All Time Low
Here The Wall Street Journal stipulates that Russia’s soft underbelly is its economic reliance on Europe. But this late in the winter its favored “natural gas diplomacy” won’t have much effect because Ukraine and the other European nations already have enough supplies to get to Spring. Russia’s Micex stock index fell 11% on Monday and […]
How to Make $175,000
Making money and saving money is hard. But if you have some money and some time then you can do some amazing things like compounding your money or what Albert Einstein referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. But compounding can work both ways. Carrying credit card debt at predatory rates month after […]
Merkel Has Opened a Dialouge with Putin
Al Jazeera America reports that neither side in the current Ukraine conflict has a clue about what comes next. Now that the U.S. and Russia are locking diplomatic horns, Germany’s Angela Merkel will play the good cop and attempt to sort all this out without bloodshed. Neither Moscow nor the NATO powers have reckoned with […]