Francis Lee

by Francis Lee for the Saker blog It is an open question as to why Putin and the Russian government tolerated the 2014 coup which was blatantly funded and organized

By Francis Lee for the Saker blog During the Second World War in Europe, particularly in the East, special corps of mobile German extermination units known as “Einsatzgruppen” (literally “operational

by Francis Lee for the Saker blog ‘’You can’t always get what you want.’’ Courtesy of the Rolling Stones This aptly sums up the Eurozone/East-Asian/US relationship: In short US hegemony.

By Francis Lee for the Saker blog Part I Victor Yanukovich was elected President of the Ukraine in 2010 narrowly defeating Yulia Timoshenko with 49% of votes cast to Timoshenko’s

by Francis Lee for the Saker blog As the textbooks would have define it Capitalism should be understood as being essentially a dynamic force, constantly growing and mutating, and it

by Francis Lee for the Saker Blog Contemporary politics consists of the usual timeless formula of Machiavelli – namely: rule by force and fraud – but now with the current

By Francis Lee for the Saker blog ‘’The best-known definition of financialization is that it involves the increasing role of financial motives, financial markets, financial actors, and financial institutions in

By Francis Lee for the Saker Blog When everybody talks of new eras – blissfully unaware of the fact that soon he will be talking of the hopeless failure of

by Francis Lee for the Saker Blog The customary argument that ‘free-trade’ promotes global growth will, given an appropriate policy mixture of specialisation and comparative advantage, result in a rise

By Francis Lee for the Saker Blog Inflation Tax: The Plan to Deal With the Debt – By Peter Comley – pp.209 – July 2013 Reviewed by Francis Lee Inflation