The Globalist

Reflections on the present-day challenges for the United States, the self-appointed beacon of “democracy.”

The Phillipines’ new President, not Russia’s Putin, is the international leader closest to Trump’s heart and mind.

America’s new top power broker isn’t Donald or Vladimir, but Republican operators from America’s 30th state.

Putin cares as little about Russia as Trump does about America. They only care about making the world safe for the super-rich.

Will Trump have a similarly devastating effect on democracies that Gorbachev had on Communism?

Is the new US President really trying to resolve the competitiveness challenge by relying on outdated 1960s style, Brazilian economic concepts?

In a curious role reversal, it was a Japanese Prime Minister who stole the march on Trump and his anti-globalism chants.

To date, not a single top banker has been put on trial, let alone sent to prison, for the frauds perpetrated by the institutions they lead.

The U.S. government under Trump may be on the verge of returning to the old policy of transaction-based support of autocratic regimes in the Middle East.

Will the tangled finances of vastly wealthy leaders of the US administration become a possible cause for corruption concerns?