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Back in 2011, in a rare display of bipartisan cooperation that split both Republicans and Democrats, the Senate passed a bill aimed at addressing China’s currency manipulation. The 63-35 vote …

It’s very fashionable online nowadays to criticize early adopters of Google Glass, the computerized glasses. Commenters regularly deride people who appear in public wearing Google Glass, referring to them as …

Liberal bloggers are now spinning Barack Obama’s inaction on the Ukraine crisis as an intentional strategy, as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin pulls his troops back from the border with Ukraine. But while …

Almost 50 years ago, a media thinker and professor named Marshall McLuhan coined the catchphrase “global village.” Today that phrase remains an apt way to characterize not only the Internet, but the …

Back in 2009 the German central bank, the Bundesbank, announced they were concerned they hadn’t been paying enough attention to their gold reserves stored in overseas central banks. It’s not …

When Benny Goodman recorded a song about “a slow boat to China,” it was talking about the longest trip imaginable. Today of course we can fly to China; the trip from …

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin struck back against Western sanctions, telling international multinational financial services companies Visa and MasterCard they must cough up a $3.8 billion USD “security deposit,” which they will forfeit …

Welcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future.   ALAS, POOR HILLARY: Big Chief Elizabeth Warren, she …

While Russian troops camp out on the Ukrainian border, pro-Russian insurgents inside the Eastern European nation are seizing town  after town, this week claiming the eastern city of Luhansk. Obama …

Since the Russian invasion of Crimea in February, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama have been in regular contact with each other, seeking to smooth over tensions in Ukraine. Regular, almost …