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August 23, 2012

Defense and Security
Top Twelve Defense Sequestration Scare Tactics

Over a year ago, on August 2, 2011, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011. The bipartisan legislation easily passed the House, 269-131, with 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats vot…

Panetta and Dempsey
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

November 18, 2011

Defense Technology
You Might Have Missed: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976

President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Highlights from the recently-released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XV, Soviet Union, June 1972-August …

President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

February 25, 2007

Financial Markets
The cranes of Dubai. Are they the answer to Edward Hugh’s question?

I think anyone who visits Dubai right now is bound to be dumbstruck by the sheer scale of the construction.  It, quite honestly, puts anything I saw in China in early 2005 to shame.   To the naked ey…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

December 17, 2007

United States
A strong October TIC data release, but the BEA’s data only deepens the mystery of how the US financed its current account deficit in the third quarter

NOTE: THIS POST WAS EXTENSIVELY REVISED ABOUT 5 HOURS AFTER IT WAS INITIALLY POSTED.  I DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO DO A FULL ANALYSIS IN THE MORNING.     The big story of the October TIC data is, obviously…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money