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The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part VI

The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part VI

Fuzzy Figures On Our Foreign Foes In April of 2011, the US Department of the Treasury released its Foreign Portfolio Holdings of US Securities as of June 30, 2010.    While this annual report is more thorough than the similarly-focused Monthly Report of Foreign...
The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part V

The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part V

Threat Response As previously indicated, the American attitude toward foreign investment was generally a temperate one (absent energy investments or perceived war-time threats) until the aftermath of a major shift in post-WWII global wealth began to emerge in the...
The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part IV

The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part IV

Sovereign Wealth Funds: Are SWFs the New WMDs? As the name suggests, the primary characteristic of a Sovereign Wealth Fund is that it is a state-owned and operated investment vehicle. But among the many definitions for Sovereign Wealth Fund used in differing private...
The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part III

The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part III

Strange Currencies: America’s Varied, Volatile and Selective Affair(s) with Foreign Investment   Although numerous regulations aimed at curbing Foreign Investment in the United States have emerged over the past 100 years, America is, quite literally, a creation of...
The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part II

The Unpatriotic Duty of Loyalty: Part II

Imagine The Following All-Too-Plausible Scenario… The date is December 21st, 2017 and the typical American holiday shopping fanfare – our Bacchus offering to the gods of modern western consumerism – is noticeably tempered due to increasing concerns about financial...