Friday, March 25, 2022

Conflict, Covid, China and Congress give inflation historic mementum

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  Gordon L. Weil Your wallet is at war.   It’s losing to inflation. Almost everything from gasoline to food to computers costs more and ...
Friday, March 18, 2022

Sanctions work, but Putin still risks major war

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Gordon L. Weil Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I sent a contribution directly from my bank to the Ukraine government’s national ...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Nukes, war weariness limit Ukraine options; consumers become soldiers

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  Gordon L. Weil Ukraine is different. It won’t be run over.   And it presents a national security challenge to the U.S. and Europe that...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Putin gambles, everybody loses

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Gordon L. Weil Is Ukraine run by Nazis? Is Ukraine really part of Russia? Is Russia back as a great power? Russian President Vladimi...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Personal rights vs. public health: individualism reborn as common good fades

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  Gordon L. Weil Something big just happened in Canada. It was far more than truckers protesting a vaccination mandate.   It was a messa...
Friday, February 18, 2022

George Washington favored big government, debt reduction

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Gordon L. Weil The president agreed to meet the demands of a ruthless foreign leader rather than to fight back against his aggression. T...
Friday, February 11, 2022

World aligns into two blocs over Russia’s Ukraine threat

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  Gordon L. Weil “War is peace.” “Freedom is slavery.” “Ignorance is strength.” In 1949, George Orwell wrote a cautionary story of a...