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Is Khodorkovsky Russia’s Al Capone? – Letter To WSJ – by Steve Allen

Regarding the editorial on Russia in the Wall Street Journal by Anne Jolis (“Khodorkovsky heads back to Siberia” June 15th), I could not help but notice the significance of the date. Exactly 13 years...

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Trivia: Americans Will Work For ¢25/hour – by Tom Weber

How bad is the job market? Tom Weber chronicles the lowest hourly wage that Americans, and others around the world, will accept for an hour of work. How much would I have to pay you to listen for an...

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Why Greece Shouldn’t Look to Russia for Advice

Some commentators have argued that Greece should emulate Russia, saving itself by default, devaluation and restructuring — assuming that, like Russia, Greece would quickly rebound, benefiting from a...

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The Putin-Medvedev Tandem and Foreign Policy Dysfunction – by Vlad Sobell

I have always believed that the “tandem” is not an optimal arrangement – for reasons that seem obvious to me. To be credible, a leader of a country must possess – and be seen to possess – the ultimate...

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Ben Bernanke Realised Printing Yet More Money Would Look Desperate – by Liam...

Why didn’t Ben Bernanke signal a third round of quantitative easing on Friday at the long-anticipated Jackson Hole summit? After all, at the same event last year, the US Federal Reserve chairman made...

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*Rosneft and ExxonMobil Sign Major Russia Deal

http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=269519

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*Brits Could Fade Fast in Russia

http://www.emergingmarkets.me/2011/09/the-brits-are-fast-fading-in-russia-as-pm-cameron-arrives/

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*Russians’ Buying Boom

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-russians-are-buyingand-buying-09152011.html

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Death Wish II

T&B rides again! We are living in exceedingly interesting times, and T&B has recently enjoyed a role as spectator to the ambient madness. That said, the plethora of truly clueless commentary...

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Romney’s Useless Posturing on Russia

A guest of T&B’s provided this recent anonymous view on potential Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, and his stance vis-a-vis Russia: I think Romney is just a sellout Establishment RINO...

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*Tymoshenko Jailed for Seven Years

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15250742

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The Missing Chapter – A Personal View of Russia–Twenty Years After

Every so often, one of my readers enquires as to why I do not write a book. The answer seems obvious enough: it has already been done. The libraries are groaning under the weight of millions of them –...

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Of Blind Men & Elephants – Notes from China

As a strategist, one can no longer assemble a coherent world view without taking a view on China – not just the world’s second largest economy, but the world’s first-largest source of economic growth...

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Russian Facebook Protest – A Field of Dreams

T&B is always amazed at the ability of Westerners to see what they wish to see in Russia, whether or not it is actually there: The field of dreams! Tarkovsky’s Solaris – the planet where one’s...

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Follow-on to the Facebook Revolution

T&B is gratified that our most recent opus triggered a bit of controversy, with an outpouring of correspondence – mostly favourable, but a few very critical. This signifies that we are doing our...

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*Berezovsky’s Other Battle for Billions

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-11-17/news/russian-billionaires-battle-for-fisher-island/

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Enter Dragon, Smoking…

One of the wonderful things about living in Russia is the number of times one can celebrate the same holiday. The glorious October Revolution occurred in November, while the Orthodox Christmas and New...

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John R. Bradley on Syria and Russia

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America’s Failed (Bi-Partisan) Russia Policy – by Stephen F. Cohen

The United States and Russia are at a potentially fateful crossroads in their relations. Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the relationship features more elements of cold-war conflict...

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Notes from China (plus Two Handfuls of Dust)

T&B Rides Again – And a Note from our New Sponsor! T&B was (mis-) conceived under the premise that we could save mankind from itself. That the folly, the misconceptions, the constant...

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DSK: The Counter-History – by Edward Jay Epstein

The recent Greek election could have led to Greece’s exit from the Euro, and set off the Doomsday clock for the global financial system. Could this potential scenario have been averted if Dominique...

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The Fear Issue

Something of a novelty – an issue of T&B running somewhat shorter than ‘War and Peace’ (and with far fewer characters, most of whom have only one name…). Whilst we had initially set out to keep it...

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The Full Monti

The Strategist’s Lament Having dawdled and delayed drafting the most recent T&B through the long, sleepy months of summer (cruising Asian seas aboard El Aleph is not conducive to the sort of...

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Cypriot MoU Leak – an EU Acid Trip

The latest leaked Cypriot MoU fresh from the EU – on ‘Specific Economic Policy Conditionality’ – features a 4% primary budget surplus by 2017. A German hallucination!...

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A Hard Rain (’s a-Gonna Fall)

It has been quite some time since T&B put fingers to keyboard to enlighten, enthral, provoke, irritate… Click here for the new T&B newsletter in full – A Hard Rain Facebook is partially to...

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Predicting the Tsunami – by Dylan Grice

Three years ago (admittedly not such a ‘Recent View’) Dylan Grice wrote the following paper on Japan and the Nikkei – and for the most part it is becoming true. Keep an eye out for the 63m! Click here...

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Ukraine: Truth – the First Casualty

How do wars begin? Wars begin when, first, politicians lie to journalists, then they believe what they read in the press! Karl Kraus, 1912 The bombastic and totally counterproductive Western response...

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The Widening Gyre — and the Sarajevo Blues

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… The best lack all conviction, while the...

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Earthquake Season

“May you live in interesting times!” — Old Chinese curse (alas, mythical — though someone surely should have said it!) “Insanity is doing the same thing — over and over again — and expecting a...

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23 Theses and One Piece of Investment Advice – A View from the Kremlin Towers

Martin Luther nailed up no fewer than 95 theses and changed the world – but his was a time before the internet, and he didn’t have a portfolio to manage. We have thus confined ourselves to a mere 23…...

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