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Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

…classic, maybe the classic rookie error when talking about the federal budget, imagining that foreign aid is a significant expense: Surveys consistently show that the public believes that foreign aid is around 25 percent…

Euro Area Portfolio Flows

…in June to -€78.9 in Q4. For 2011 as a whole, foreigners accumulated similar amounts of euro-denominated assets as in 2008 (the last time the foreign flows turned negative), €233…

Project for a New American Century

Statement of Principles June 3, 1997 American foreign and defense policy is adrift. Conservatives have criticized the incoherent policies of the Clinton Administration. They have also resisted isolationist impulses from…

Foreign Policy and Iran

by cactus Via Steve Benen and The Reality-Based Community, an interview in >Foreign Policy with Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Mousavi’s spokesman outside Iran: FP: There has been growing criticism here in Washington…

Ideology full steam ahead, no questions asked

…Oversight Board, who has dissented from its proposal to let foreign authorities inspect auditors. Referring to the fact that foreign investigations are often not wide-ranging, he added, “Even the most…

Multinationals and National Income Accounting

…net foreign assets. So why hasn’t the GDP/GNP ratio surprised unity – since one would expect the U.S. to have negative net foreign income from abroad? I guess the accounting…

Neal Boortz On Our Foreign Dependence on Oil

Neal Boortz tells his listeners: “But the left doesn’t want us to reduce our reliance on foreign oil”, which drew a response from the Mahablog. Maybe Neil thinks the House…