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Peter Burgess

Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.


President Trump: The Magic of American Politics

Can this crude, narcissistic demagogue actually become President of the United States?

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U.S. Politics: Primary Election Mess

This year’s U.S. presidential primaries are not selecting candidates that can win the office.

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United States: The End of Establishment Orthodoxy

Democratic and Republican Party elites have failed to produce outcomes U.S. voters expect.

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Trump & America, You Can’t Have It Back Again!

Grandpa was dead; the kids were being poisoned; mom was enslaved and Armageddon was just around the corner!

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The Fallout From Michigan

Takeaways for the would-be frontrunners from Tuesday’s U.S. presidential primaries.

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Bernie Sanders: Tackling America’s Biggest “Rackets”

Health care, education and finance have particularly significant effects in distorting the U.S. economy.

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Bernie Sanders for President?

Why Bernie Sanders is the person best qualified to be the next President of the United States.

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Papal Politics in the United States

Catholic men are now a bulwark of the Republican Party. But Pope Francis’s teachings do not square with Republican policies.

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Iran Deal: Watch Who Is Doing the Warning

The same people who triggered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq now categorically reject the Iran Deal.

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The Republicans’ Acid Reflux Syndrome

Presidential candidates are long on blame, short on solutions.

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Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.

US Fed: Go Knock Yourself Out, Chicken Little

Janet Yellen should be more assertive on interest rates.

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Battling ISIS and the Six Lessons of Vietnam

Eerie similarities between the United States’ defeat in Vietnam and early stages of conflict in Iraq and Syria.

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Oil: Anatomy of a Bubble

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Life is good — for oil consuming countries at least.

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Immigration: The Story of U.S. Political Dysfunction

President Obama’s immigration action is a product of a far larger problem.

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Pricing the Risk of Climate Change

Why U.S. politicians must learn about dealing with reality.

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Obama: So Good, Yet So Bad

How can someone so politically adept at campaigning be so politically incompetent at governing?

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Pity Poor Germany? Leadership Comes with Responsibility

How can an economy, which represents only 4.9% of global GDP, be so central to the global economic outlook?

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ISIS as a Colonial Creature: Is Washington Being “Played”?

ISIS is not an aberration. It is a legitimate part of the Middle Eastern political landscape.

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The Power of Video: From ISIS to the NFL

The power of the media to shape and shift public opinion.

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Willful Ignorance on the Economy

Did the American political right’s willfully ignorant view of the economy undermine it’s recovery?

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Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.

Willful Ignorance on Foreign Policy

Stability through strength was and is a phantom concept

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The Dumbest U.S. Foreign Policy Question Asked This Century

What do U.S. politicians mean when they say they want to save Syria?

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Should Obama Quit His Job?

The job of president of the United States is impossible for anyone holding that office.

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Countering the Voices of U.S. Economic Extremism

The economic extremism from the far right could have set the United States far off course.

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This Thing Europeans Call Football

An American’s cultural journey toward the world’s most popular sport.

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The Nagging Realities of the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate

U.S. foreign policy needs a complete rethink to move past the post-9/11 model.

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Don’t Count the Democrats Out Just Yet

Why U.S. Republicans may not gain another unearned victory in the fall.

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Rethinking China’s Future Path

The Chinese economy in its current form may not be sustainable.

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Don’t Pity the Poor JP Morgan Shareholder

Accountability has to be the key underpinning of modern capitalism.

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Learning to Love Inflation (Thanks To Quantitative Easing)

Why should real capitalists and long-term investors love quantitative easing?

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Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.

Bringing About Real Corporate Change in Bad Industries

Is capital itself the only practical force capable of restraining capitalism’s own excesses?

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The Capital Paradox

Will groupthink about bank capital ratios merely set the stage for yet another banking crisis?

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President Obama, Call the Republicans’ Bluff

Why would slashing government spending be more dangerous than a short-term failure to raise the debt ceiling?

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President Obama, Plug the Hole

Is President Obama the only man who can plug the hole in American governance?

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Obama's Lost Opportunity

Why isn’t President Obama taking more tough stances on key issues?

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Stop! You’re Giving Me the Blues

How should the United States pull itself out of this current state of (economic) depression?

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A Second Bretton Woods

With the world economy on fire, what are the two most important steps needed to get to safer shores?

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Why Europe Needs — And Wants — Bush to Win

How has President Bush’s leadership benefited Europe?

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