The Unraveling Of The American Empire
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America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by mechanized units in the open desert that did not - wisely - attempt to occupy Iraq, the United States political and military leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another. Korea. Vietnam. Lebanon. Afghanistan. Iraq. Syria. Libya. The trajectory of military fiascos mirrors the sad finales of the Chinese, Ottoman, Hapsburg, Russian, French, British, Dutch, Portuguese and Soviet empires. While each of these empires decayed with their own peculiarities, they all exhibited patterns of dissolution that characterize the American experiment.
America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by mechanized units in the open desert that did not wisely attempt to occupy Iraq, the United States political and military leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another. Korea. Vietnam. Lebanon. Afghanistan. Iraq. Syria. Libya. The trajectory of military fiascos mirrors the sad finales of the Chinese, Ottoman, Hapsburg, Russian, French, British, Dutch, Portuguese and Soviet empires. While each of these empires decayed with their own peculiarities, they all exhibited patterns of dissolution that characterize the American experiment.
ETFGI Announces Speakers And Topics For The ETFGI Global ETFs Insights Summit - United States, A Virtual Event On May 19th & 20th Date
May 19
Fre
e attendance and educational credits for buyside institutional investors and financial advisors. Receive a free copy of the ETFGI directory of ETFs and ETPs
and educational credits
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The event is designed to facilitate substantive and in-depth discussion on the regulatory, product and trading developments impacting the use of and trading of ETFs in the United States.
Confirmed speakers:
Jeffrey B. Baccash, Global Head of ETF Solutions, BNP Paribas
Dan Draper, CEO, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Active ETFs Crashed the 2020 Awards Party While active ETFs represent just 3.5% of the U.S. listed ETF universe, they are increasingly being viewed as sound investments.
This week, ETF industry website
ETF.com held an annual awards ceremony to recognize the best ETFs for 2020 according to an independent panel of third-party research providers and asset owners. These are not sponsored awards, making winning one even more valuable. CFRA Research is one of the firms that served as a judge, using our forward-looking star rating methodology, proprietary ETF flows data and other market insights, to sort through the candidates. While our picks were only sometimes the winner, one key takeaway was that actively managed ETFs have gained acceptance, despite remaining a small slice of the market.
History, Legacy, Inhumanity & Stupidity
We are a nation forged in blood. Violence is our thing. America, as stated here time and again, is the great human experiment. And so far, for the past 300,000 or so years of humanity the results have been fairly consistent. We are super-duper violent. And in the freest of national constructs, humanity gets to let it all hang out. And man, we have done a fantastic job of bringing the bang. Since day-one, shit,
before day-one, Americans have killed everything and anyone in our path, then expanded that globally, and then when that wasn’t enough, we turned the big stuff on ourselves. Violence is in our political structure, our media, our religions, our neighborhoods, our sports, our hobbies, our obsessions, our songs, our art, our vocabulary, our DNA.