Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.
By Richard Phillips,
May 9, 2016
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Can this crude, narcissistic demagogue actually become President of the United States?
By Richard Phillips,
April 5, 2016
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
This year’s U.S. presidential primaries are not selecting candidates that can win the office.
By Richard Phillips,
March 28, 2016
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Democratic and Republican Party elites have failed to produce outcomes U.S. voters expect.
By Richard Phillips,
March 16, 2016
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Grandpa was dead; the kids were being poisoned; mom was enslaved and Armageddon was just around the corner!
By Richard Phillips,
March 9, 2016
in Global HotSpots, Rethinking America, American Bystander
Takeaways for the would-be frontrunners from Tuesday’s U.S. presidential primaries.
By Richard Phillips,
March 3, 2016
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Health care, education and finance have particularly significant effects in distorting the U.S. economy.
By Richard Phillips,
February 2, 2016
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Why Bernie Sanders is the person best qualified to be the next President of the United States.
By Richard Phillips,
September 3, 2015
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Catholic men are now a bulwark of the Republican Party. But Pope Francis’s teachings do not square with Republican policies.
By Richard Phillips,
August 12, 2015
in Global HotSpots, Rethinking America, American Bystander
The same people who triggered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq now categorically reject the Iran Deal.
By Richard Phillips,
August 4, 2015
in American Bystander
Presidential candidates are long on blame, short on solutions.
Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.
By Richard Phillips,
August 3, 2015
in EconoMatters, American Bystander
Janet Yellen should be more assertive on interest rates.
By Richard Phillips,
June 9, 2015
in Global HotSpots, American Bystander
Eerie similarities between the United States’ defeat in Vietnam and early stages of conflict in Iraq and Syria.
By Richard Phillips,
December 15, 2014
in EconoMatters, American Bystander
Life is good — for oil consuming countries at least.
By Richard Phillips,
December 1, 2014
in Global HotSpots, American Bystander
President Obama’s immigration action is a product of a far larger problem.
By Richard Phillips,
November 13, 2014
in EconoMatters, American Bystander
Why U.S. politicians must learn about dealing with reality.
By Richard Phillips,
November 4, 2014
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
How can someone so politically adept at campaigning be so politically incompetent at governing?
By Richard Phillips,
October 22, 2014
in EconoMatters, American Bystander
How can an economy, which represents only 4.9% of global GDP, be so central to the global economic outlook?
By Richard Phillips,
October 15, 2014
in Global HotSpots, American Bystander
ISIS is not an aberration. It is a legitimate part of the Middle Eastern political landscape.
By Richard Phillips,
September 23, 2014
in Global Pairings, American Bystander
The power of the media to shape and shift public opinion.
By Richard Phillips,
September 19, 2014
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
Did the American political right’s willfully ignorant view of the economy undermine it’s recovery?
Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.
By Richard Phillips and Stephan Richter,
September 6, 2014
in Rethinking America, Richter Scale, American Bystander
Stability through strength was and is a phantom concept
By Richard Phillips and Stephan Richter,
August 19, 2014
in Rethinking America, Richter Scale, American Bystander
What do U.S. politicians mean when they say they want to save Syria?
By Richard Phillips,
August 11, 2014
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
The job of president of the United States is impossible for anyone holding that office.
By Richard Phillips,
July 17, 2014
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
The economic extremism from the far right could have set the United States far off course.
By Richard Phillips,
June 27, 2014
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
An American’s cultural journey toward the world’s most popular sport.
By Richard Phillips,
May 22, 2014
in Rethinking America, American Bystander
U.S. foreign policy needs a complete rethink to move past the post-9/11 model.
By Richard Phillips,
April 1, 2014
in American Bystander, Globalist Perspective
Why U.S. Republicans may not gain another unearned victory in the fall.
By Richard Phillips,
March 10, 2014
in Global HotSpots, American Bystander
The Chinese economy in its current form may not be sustainable.
By Richard Phillips,
October 27, 2013
in American Bystander, Reforming Global Finance
Accountability has to be the key underpinning of modern capitalism.
By Richard Phillips,
May 16, 2013
in American Bystander, Reforming Global Finance
Why should real capitalists and long-term investors love quantitative easing?
Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience.
By Richard Phillips,
April 15, 2013
in American Bystander, Reforming Global Finance
Is capital itself the only practical force capable of restraining capitalism’s own excesses?
By Richard Phillips,
February 13, 2012
in American Bystander, Globalist Analysis
Will groupthink about bank capital ratios merely set the stage for yet another banking crisis?
By Richard Phillips,
July 13, 2011
in American Bystander, Globalist Perspective
Why would slashing government spending be more dangerous than a short-term failure to raise the debt ceiling?
By Richard Phillips,
June 15, 2010
in American Bystander, Globalist Analysis
Is President Obama the only man who can plug the hole in American governance?
By Richard Phillips,
July 30, 2009
in Globalist Analysis
Why isn’t President Obama taking more tough stances on key issues?
By Richard Phillips,
November 20, 2008
in Globalist Perspective
How should the United States pull itself out of this current state of (economic) depression?
By Richard Phillips,
October 13, 2008
in Globalist Analysis
With the world economy on fire, what are the two most important steps needed to get to safer shores?
By Richard Phillips,
October 13, 2004
in Globalist Perspective
How has President Bush’s leadership benefited Europe?
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