…Bretton Woods and the Oil Embargo. On the foreign policy front, Vietnam… well, that wasn’t pretty, but there was the trip to China, and there were a couple missile &…

…time of fragile economic recovery, with a weak job market and a crushing national debt from “two wars, two massive tax cuts and an unprecedented financial crisis.” The widening gulf…

…in cutting DoD spending [FY 91 spending had declined to 475B from 553B in 1989 a decline which was disrupted by the first Gulf war, but hit $400B in 2011…

…The United States has formally controlled at least Northern and Southern Iraqi airspace since the first Gulf War via the No-Fly Zones. I surmise, though don’t know for sure, that…

…meet real problems, not those conjured from thin air by economists. Bringing about a rapid end to unemployment, caring properly for an aging population, cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico,…

…they’re supposed to be doing. (That’s why, for example, I still think it unwise to have BP run the operation to plug the hole in the bottom of the Gulf.)…

…in the UAE, an oil-rich Gulf country experiencing an economic boom where only some 20 percent of the four million population have citizenship. Sign of the times for the headlong…

…with a few minutes of googling, I share his general view on the divisions in the profession. He notes that there is more than one fundamental gulf which means that…

…drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years. “You better believe…

rdan Marketwatch notes some kinks in our concepts of retirement security: The vast gulf in performance underscores a little-appreciated fact of target-date funds: They may focus on the same retirement…