Epstein Secrets

t money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud, it said. Former President George W. Bush's administration cited its belief that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's government held weapons of mass destruction to justify the decision to go to war. U.S. and allied forces later found that such stockpiles did not

ere were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had no links to al Qaeda. The U.S. was gr

e no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had no links to al Qaeda. The U.S. was greeted no

ause unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, is still unacceptably high. 'The boom, not the slump, is the time for austerity," John Maynard Keynes declared many years ago. Kurgman: He was right — all you have to do is look at Europe to see the disastrous effects of austerity on weak economies.

qi exiles who told President George W. Bush that divisions among country's Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish communities could be easily overcome in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq either underestimated or deliberately downplayed the salience of these ethno-sectarian identities. Moreover, reassuring statements made to Wes

h communities could be easily overcome in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq either underestimated or deliberate

nities could be easily overcome in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq either underestimated or deliberately downp

th Communism in the age of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He spends a great deal of time attacking Friedrich Hayek and defending John Maynard Keynes. "Thinking the Twentieth Century" concludes with a recapitulation of the defense of the welfare state made in his 2010 book "Ill Fares the Land," a

brothers have done a heckuva job there and their dad would be very proud of his boys. I guess it wasn't until we first started dropping bombs on Saddam in 1991 that I got incrementally more bearish on the world. While I was decent at finding longs, I haven't been overly enthused in names on the

m to be very concerned about the skeptics and again are using money to buy back their overpriced stock...good luck to them. There's that famous Keynes saying about the market staying irrational longer than you stay solvent. From a process standpoint, what do you do to ensure you don't face real