Trump Tariff Economics – What lies beneath?

Introduction  Thirty-four years ago, I was enrolled in a master’s degree in economics, and found myself comfortably numb, and of course leaning to the left as any wannabe intellectual – quoting Marx and then something happened…  On 24th July 1991, the finance minister – Dr. Manmohan Singh (who later became a brilliant prime minister of India […]

The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas

The Tale of Two Speeches and Two Americas Is Democracy being reduced to meaningless hyperreality – a simulacrum for the monkey mind of the common man entrapped within a world that is increasingly virtual, untrustworthy, unsafe, lonely, and ambivalent?   The Context & the Divide This blog leverages textual analyses of two speeches given by […]