The term was popularized during the term of President Taft, who notably used dollar diplomacy to "send dollars instead of guns" to areas in which the United States had an interest. The government did things like acquiring debt held by insolvent nations and investing in infrastructure in countries...
of course, things have to deteriorate pretty badly before full-blown litigation or the removal of an entire board becomes a serious consideration. Any reputable attorney will nearly always advise diplomacy and mediation before recommending that a suit be filed. ...
If trade friction splinters the global economy into rival blocs and alternative spheres of influence, it could fragment the monetary order and erode the dollar's universality. Much depends on how the U.S. engages in economic and political diplomacy in a multipolar world. Finding amodus vivendiwit...
Humanity’s End Was Determined from the Start (collapse2050.com) ‘Where did I go wrong?’ The scientist who tried to raise the climate alarm | Climate science | The Guardian (ampproject.org) Earth passes 2°C of warming on hottest day ever recorded | New Scientist ...
The President can veto bills approved by Congress and the President nominates individuals to serve in the Federal judiciary; the Supreme Court can declare a law enacted by Congress or an action by the President unconstitutional; Congress can impeach the President, Federal court justices and...
What accounts for this fall from grace, and what can those of us working in media studies, franchise studies, and science fiction studies learn from this massive shift in the cultural tide? How has the current state of the MCU been inflected by outside pressures like the shift to the Disne...
When leftists tried to take over entire swaths of Seattle and Portland and declare them “autonomous zones”, where were the Democrats and their outrage? Where were their calls to prosecute the protesters as terrorists? If there were any, the media certainly did not put a spotlight on ...
To try to account for unvalued projects, and simply as a thought exercise, if we naively assume that projects that were not valued were similar to those that did receive a valuation, and multiply the total number of projects in each category by the average value of valued projects in each...
Empire to send Canadians and state that he did his best to remove them as quickly as possible after he discovered he was being used by the British gov- ernment in another "imperial" adven- ture. The inability of Borden and hi colleagues to distinguish between Canadian and British imperial ...
“There would be no objection if the small Orthodox Jewish community stuck to making their own kosher products [insteading of foisting it off onto the Gentile world] and paid for them, as they did before the kosher business was launched in 1919, for the general public.” http://www.conspi...