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Letter from Taiwan

As regular readers know, I mix looking at the numbers with on-the-ground research. Thus, Letter from Mississippi, Letter from Santiago, Letter from Tbilisi, Letter from Kyiv and today’s note. Also, for those of you who read and enjoyed Master, Minion, please submit a review on Amazon. Did I mention that books make great holiday gifts?

Never Look Away

“If you will take my advice you will tell us everything…” -Mr. Skinner.

Letter from Kyiv

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Cold War, Hot War & the Front Line

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Letter from Tbilisi

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Why The Dictator

I am not partial to strongmen rulers, but my visit to Iquique, Chile, which I am leaving as this post hits your inbox, helped me put Pinochet and others of his ilk into perspective.

Letter from Santiago

The International Energy Agency predicated that demand for lithium was set to grow thirty-fold by 2030 and more than a hundred times by 2050.

Letter From Mississippi

Monday was warm and sunny in Belzoni, Mississippi. As I turned a corner in a downtown pocked with empty buildings, I was greeted with a genial “good morning” by a man with a holstered weapon on his hip, legal in an open-carry state. The post-Civil Rights Delta is a juxtaposition of amiable people, violence, progress and dysfunction.

It Began in Sarajevo

When I say “it”, I mean both modernity and post-truth, post-Cold War conflict. Sarajevo, where I spent a few days this week, is both where the triggering event of WW1 transpired and a key theater in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. The fear in Sarajevo now is that if Putin begins to win in Ukraine, China will swiftly move on Taiwan and Serbia will attack Bosnia. Recent clashes between Serbs and Kosovaars amplified those fears.