…answer purely conjectural, but I do wonder if Bear Strearns learned anything from the loss of two of its funds, or whether this merely lets them go global and sovereign?…

…a small proxy skirmish for Maliki, and a possible wedge to actually gain some independence for the sovereign government. Tactical moves for them, but what of US law and order?…

…purchases seem an implausible explanation of why yields on long-term non-U.S. sovereign debt instruments are so low. Economic integration has reduced worldwide inflation expectations and, through increased international capital flows,…

…is that Argentina should agree to enter formal negotiations with its private creditors to restructure the country’s defaulted sovereign debt. Until now, Argentine authorities have gone out of their way…

…a State’s authority to exercise its police power or its sovereign right to adopt in its own constitution individual liberties more expansive than those conferred by the Federal Constitution. And…

…include “…“The sovereign, for example, with all the officers both of justice and war who serve under him, the whole army and navy, are unproductive labourers…” So, is America headed…

…Iraq and Iran Less than eighteen months later, the Bush Administration was able to exploit that confusion and shift from attacking terrorism to attacking sovereign entities and its own people….

…deficit and national debt. See Attention: Deficit Disorder and the Real Crisis Ahead, Naked Capitalism (Oct. 29, 2013), reposting article with the same title by Fadhel Kaboub, New Economic Perspectives….

…biological and environmental commons. Particular measures proposed include supranational litigation tribunals to which sovereign national courts are expected to defer, but which have no human rights safeguards. The TPP IP…

…never explains, this loose-confederation-of-50-sovereigns interpretation of the Supremacy Clause does not apply to those 50 sovereigns’ legislative or executive branches. (Suffice it to say that legislation invoking select constitutional provisions…