Will China’s Economy Be Double the US’ ?
China’s growth is unmistakably slowing down. And it has been since the 1990s. China’s percent change in real GDP growth was negative 62% of the time (16 of the 26 years between 1991 and 2017).
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Author: Arthur Petersen
No, Elon, the Fighter Jet Era has NOT Passed
Musk conflates the trend of the growing importance of UAVs to mean that they will soon replace manned aircraft. The real trend over the past two decades is of drones augmenting the capabilities of our other air (and ground) weapon systems, not displacing them.
Read MoreThe Candles – Part 2
Part Two: Spark of Life Nine months later, a beautiful baby girl increased their family by one. They named her Cloethel, in honor of Thrala’s favorite handmaiden whom she regretted bitterly to have forgotten in the tumultuous...
Read MoreThe Candles – Part 1
Part One: Flame of Love Thrala hid silver coins in her gloves so that should one fall out she would pretend to spy it on the ground and tell her handmaiden to fetch it for her. She did not content herself with appearing rich....
Read MoreFlik e Flok
[inspired by the film Laugh, Clown, Laugh] She was tied to a stump by the river I raised her on no one’s behalf But the man who won her heart in the end Was the man compelled to laugh Go see the clown who’ll turn your frown...
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