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The Geopolitics Of US Debt

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Bloomberg published an article about a raging debate among economists in the context of US budget, debt ceiling and the rising indebtedness, currently about $17 trillion, of the United States. While it is … Continue reading

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On Fossil Fuel Energy Subsidies: A Reply To The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is asking the world to end energy subsidies on fossil fuels. It wants governments to price-in the cost of the negative externalities from the use of coal, oil and … Continue reading

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People’s Republic Of China, Republic Of India, And United States Of America

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Jagdish Bhagwati, the well-known trade economist at Columbia University, has raised two important points about India’s relationship with the United States in a recent report in The Economic Times, an Indian daily newspaper … Continue reading

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Preventing, Curing And Treating Diabetes Mellitus (DM): A Perspective

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The purpose of this fully copyright protected article in the Transformations series of articles on Understanding Life, is to view diabetes mellitus – a disease of the body’s ability to break-down sugars, caused … Continue reading

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Novus Regere: The New Regionalism

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In this paper, I coin the phrase Novus Regere to literally mean New Region in Latin or New Regionalism in English. I Regere Slicing the global agora by its polis is as old as … Continue reading

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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11 By Lawrence Wright, A Film Review

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa I The Aspiration of Osama Bin Laden Surat An-Nisa, “Women” Sura 4 Verse 78 (4:78), Al-Quran To capture the fever at the epicenter of the struggle for the soul of Islam, Middle East … Continue reading

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The Investigation Of Sam Bacile

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Arab Spring, the raison d’etre of President Barack Hussein Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, is on the eve of going up in flames, as if fire on ice. An obscure man in Los Angeles … Continue reading

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“Forward”: Monetary Policy Of The United States 2012-2032

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa 17hPaul Krugman ‏@NYTimeskrugman Spinning for Dollars http://nyti.ms/U5klhx  15h1776 @1_776 @NYTimeskrugman Obama gets a bounce on the trampoline. The net (economy) is depressed. He rises, literally a lift from small talk in diners. 1hPaul Krugman ‏@NYTimeskrugman No Details Forthcoming http://nyti.ms/QCDYz0  … Continue reading

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Obama’s Debt Ceiling Gambit

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The alignment of the sun with the center of the Milky Way (a growing black hole) – the galaxy it is a part of, and around which it and the solar system revolve … Continue reading

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Bogey For Wall Street At Jackson Hole: Markets Should Not Take Fed’s QE3 For Granted

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa 19m Transformations ‏@c_tamirisa @SquawkCNBC Creating smaller GLB banks is arbitrary given the size of the global economy. View conversation Reply Delete Favorite 20m Transformations ‏@c_tamirisa @SquawkCNBC Money supply growth is currently incommensurately high … Continue reading

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