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FOURTEEN PERCENT?
April 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Alan Beattie crisply outlines the dark clouds headed for the global economy.

“The trading system needs buyers not sellers”

Neither stagflation/recession-hurling tariff-fest USA, nor demand black-hole China will provide it.

There won’t be enough demand to go around.
April 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Because it fears a change of the EU fiscal rules, the Commission is resorting to a very far-reaching interpretation of the rules to make room for much more defense spending. This is a shortsighted mistake because it risks accidentally killing the rules altogether at the worst moment.

Here is why:
March 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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A small drop in an ocean of suck, but for the past few weeks friends have let me know that my book (Divided Armies), along w/ related articles + briefings, was removed from DoD reading lists & curricula for being "too woke"

Now JFQ has literally "unpublished" its review & any mention of the book ⬇️
grahamj.bsky.social Graham W. Jenkins @grahamj.bsky.social · Mar 5
Everything is unbelievably stupid, and among this is Joint Force Quarterly being forced to unpublish multiple articles and some entire issues as far back as *2006* because of "DEI material"
Recently PULLED Full JFQ editions that include the following articles JFQ 93 (full issue) Warrior Women: 3,000 Years in the Fight By Mary Raum JFQ 93 Military Medicine: The Gender Gap in Trauma Training By Daniel P. McGarrah   JFQ 101 (full issue) Buy Now, Get Paid with Diversity Later: Insights into Career Progression of Female Servicemembers By Monica Dziubinski Gramling and Warren Korban Blackburn JFQ 104 (full issue) Retaining Female Leaders: A Key Readiness Issue By Benjamin Ramsey, Ann Bednash, and John Folks JFQ 109 (full issue) A More Perfect Union: Black Soldiers and the Promise of America By John Nagl and Charles D. Allen JFQ 110 (full issue) Enhancing National Security Increasing Female Faculty in Professional Military Education Would Strengthen U.S. Security By Magdalena Bogacz JFQ 111 (full issue) Absent From the Front: What the Case of the Missing World War II Black Combat Soldier Can Teach Us About Diversity and Inclusion By Bryon Greenwald Recently Hidden/Unpublished Pages/Webpages for NDU Press Articles An Ancillary Duty?: The Department of Defense Approach to Women, Peace, and Security in Security Cooperation Programs By Barbara Salera Lopez PRISM Vol. 10, No. 3 -talks about feminist theory, inclusivity, and integration of a “gender perspective” in security cooperation activities     Women, Regardless: Understanding Gender Bias in U.S. Military Integration By Elizabeth M. Trobaugh JFQ 88 A Strong Fighting Force Is a Diverse Fighting Force By Larry O. Spencer JFQ 76 Enhancing National Security: Increasing Female Faculty in Professional Military Education Would Strengthen U.S. Security By Magdalena Bogacz JFQ 110         The Counterproductive “Sea of Sameness” in PME By Joan Johnson-Freese, Ellen Haring, and Marybeth Ulrich JFQ 43             Books Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War By Jason Lyall Princeton University Press, 2020 Women on the Frontlines of Peace and Security 2015 JFQ Authors, Your NDU Press team that produces Joint Force Quarterly (JFQ) was directed to “scrub” our website for any material that is defined in the attached memo. We were given until 5 March at noon (assume EST) to comply. The MSWord document attached details our compliance which includes six issues and eleven articles including one from PRISM as well as one book tied to our site from another published and a book we published. My team has disabled several JFQ links to comply and due to conditions here on my team, we have a larger “cut” than necessary to just remove the articles that fit the definition in the policy. We did so in this way due to the time allowed to comply. As an example, we have disabled some entire editions due to technical reasons, most often it would take more time to be precise to meet the deadline in the memo. The editorial decisions on what was removed was mine to make and any mistakes I have committed are mine. I and my NDU Press team is committed to returning any material that doesn’t meet this policy’s constraints as soon as possible. As we receive additional guidance and our abilities to be more precise in our digital offerings, I anticipate some material will be returned to the website. For now, articles that fit my interpretation of the memo have been removed from view. I appreciate your concern for your work which was properly vetted when it was prepared to be published. Of course, DoD used the policies in place at the time your articles were submitted for review. It would seem those policies are changing. I am committed to seeking relief as best I can for the return of your articles. Please reach out to me if you have any questions or would like to talk with me about this action. Sincerely, Bill William T. Eliason, Colonel, USAF (Ret), PhD Director, NDU Press Editor in Chief, Joint Force Quarterly
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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“‘…There are going to be regions of the country where you can’t get a mortgage,’ he said during his semiannual testimony to Congress, noting that banks and insurance companies have been pulling out of coastal and fire-prone areas they deem too high risk.” finance.yahoo.com/news/powell-...
Powell predicts a time when mortgages will be impossible to get in parts of US
A growing property insurance crisis may make it hard to get a mortgage in parts of the country in the coming decades, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday in testimony before Congress.
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February 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM