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Updated: June 18, 2025
"It is not our war", is a common refrain, growing commoner. Putin has played it admirably nimbly. Whether he ultimately succeeds in this impossible act of balancing remains to be seen. The smart money says he would. But if the last three years have taught us anything it is that the smart money is often disastrously wrong. Germany's Rebellious Colonies By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also Read
Transition in Context By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also Read Lessons in Transition Is Transition Possible? The Rip van Winkle Institutions The Author of this Article is a Racist The Eureka Connection Women in Transition: From Post Feminism to Past Femininity Axes to Grind The Taxonomy of Political Conflict The Solow Paradox Forward to the Past Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe
They bet their existence of their ability to minimize moral hazard and hitherto, most of them have been successful. The Business of Risk By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Risk transfer is the gist of modern economies. Citizens pay taxes to ever expanding governments in return for a variety of "safety nets" and state-sponsored insurance schemes.
But that it is possible does not make it real. The Shattered Identity By: Sam Vaknin Read these essays first: The Habitual Identity Death, Meaning, and Identity Fact and Truth Dreams The Metaphors of Mind I. Exposition In the movie "Shattered" , Dan Merrick survives an accident and develops total amnesia regarding his past.
The EU can punish the revenant nations of the communist bloc with the same dedication and effectiveness with which it has hitherto rewarded them. Bulgaria The Quiet American By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Let us employ all the weapons at our disposal to achieve the best results for everyone involved. O'Neill's Free Dinner America's Current Account Deficit By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Only four months ago, the IMF revised its global growth figures upward.
This sense of "law and order" is further enhanced when the theory yields predictions which come true, either because they are self-fulfilling or because some real "law", or pattern, has emerged. Alas, this happens rarely. As "The Economist" notes gloomily, economists have the most disheartening record of failed predictions and prescriptions. The Misconception of Scarcity By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Openness to trade, protection of property rights and functioning institutions increase both the number and the scope of markets. By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Consider this: Granted, they have to be adapted, modified and cannot be imported in their entirety. But their crux, their inalienable nucleus can this be transported and transplanted in CEE? Theory provides us with a positive answer.
The Friendly Trend By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The authors of a paper published by NBER on March 2000 and titled "The Foundations of Technical Analysis" Andrew Lo, Harry Mamaysky, and Jiang Wang claim that: "Technical analysis, also known as 'charting', has been part of financial practice for many decades, but this discipline has not received the same level of academic scrutiny and acceptance as more traditional approaches such as fundamental analysis.
The Eastern Question Revisited A lecture organized by the daily "Politiken" in Copenhagen, Denmark June 25, 2001 By: Dr. Sam Vaknin When the USSR disintegrated virtually overnight, in 1989, its demise was often compared to that of the Ottoman Empire's. This was a very lacking comparison. Yet, both left a power vacuum in the Balkan in their sorry wake.
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