Showing posts with label MENA Political Crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MENA Political Crisis. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

MENA Uprisings: Iran Sends Flotilla To Bahrain

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If there is one risk that seems to have been overlooked by the marketplace is this: a potential escalation of Middle East tensions. The Re...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Yemeni President To Resign: Another Near Victory For ‘Kids With Stones And Facebook’

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Another MENA dictator bites the dust: Yemeni President agrees to step down From the Wall Street Journal Yemen's president and the...
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Saturday, April 02, 2011

Saudi Arabia’s Unsustainable Welfare State

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The Wall Street blog reports , (bold highlights mine) Another reason to brace for higher oil prices in coming years: big oil exporters...
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Correlation Isn't Causation: Food Prices and Global Riots

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The IMF says that the string of antigovernment protests worldwide are all about rising food prices. The Wall Street Journal blog writes , ...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Gaddafi Financing Libya’s War With Gold

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If there is one way to go around sanctions, then having a pile of gold could make the difference. Well, that’s how Libya’s Muammer Gaddafi h...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Are Dictatorships Bullish For the Markets?

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Dictatorships are bullish for the markets, David Kotok of Cumberland Advisers says so, (bold highlights mine) In the reality check cur...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Fearing A Slap On The Face, UN Sanctions A No-Fly Zone

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Faced with the prospects of a victorious comeback by Libya’s 42 year dictatorship under Muammar Gaddafi , the UN approves a No-Fly zone over...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Saudi Arabia Led GCC Intervention In Bahrain

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As everyone seems fixated on Japan, which seems to have eclipsed most of the world’s problems, here is one important development: Arab dicta...
Friday, March 11, 2011

Map of the Libyan War

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A map of the ongoing Libyan War as presented by the Economist
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Is the Enthusiasm for Democracy Sustainable?

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Because of the ongoing revolutions in the MENA region, Pew Research attempts to distill on the sustainability of enthusiasm for democracy us...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Will The US Fall For Osama Bin Laden’s Trap?

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From Eric Margolis at the Lew Rockwell.com , (bold emphasis mine) Bin Laden’s primary goal is overthrowing US-backed autocratic regimes...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Video: Egypt's Wael Ghonim On The Egyptian People Power Revolt

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Egypt's Wael Ghonim in a TED talk says Egypt's revolution is about People, Technology, Knowledge and Freedom. (Hat tip Mises Blog) &...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

“I Told You So!” Moment: Being Right In Gold and Disproving False Causations

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“The list of qualities [an investor should have] includes patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, deta...
Saturday, March 05, 2011

The Failure Of Centrally Planned Democracies And Of Foreign Aid Dictatorships

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GMU Professor Chris Coyne over at the Coordination Problem blog has some valuable insights on the current spontaneous People Power revolutio...
Tuesday, March 01, 2011

MENA Revolts: Unfit For Democracy?

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One of the most bigoted statements I’ve recently heard is that countries like the MENA are unfit or unprepared for democracy. I’m glad to ...

Confusing Freedom With Collectivism

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Sometimes experts are at a seeming loss of what’s been happening in the MENA region. PIMCO’s Mohamed El Erian at the Reuters writes , ...

MENA’s Third Wave-Knowledge Revolts

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The Heritage Foundation partly channels Alvin Toffler’s Third Wave and what I have called as the Hayekian knowledge revolution via the web/i...