Late great Ann Schwartz knew that bank (bond) recapitalizaton was desired policy to rescue banks in 2008; it was fundamentally NOT a liquidity crisis. Obituary https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/business/anna-schwartz-economist-who-worked-with-friedman-dies-at-96.html

Christian faiths have sources of renewal and growth outside militant secularism.

Quote from Haye's 'Road to Serfdom'. How collectivist thought begins in liberal regimes.

Trade deficits = no savings with global integrated markets. Budget deficits = excessivine govmint spending. Only sound domestic fiscal polices can reignite US manufacturing.

Oil volatility from Venezuela, Libya, Nigeria and others; OPEC will collapse bringing more unrest to supplies & weak dollar all hurt global petrol suppy markets.

Russian Gazprom megaprojects into Turkey & into Europe via Germany will dominate 2019 domestic & US foreign policy.

Impotent rage of both Christian Democrats & Social Democrats cannot hide the moral crisis that is German national identity.

Gregory Copley "Sovereignty in the 21 century" https://www.globalstrikemedia.com/thought-leadership-international-political-economy-foreign-affairs/sovereignty-in-the-21st-century-gregory-copley

Nigeria resembels Egypt: domestic insurgency, failed oil output, fractured socio-political sectarian urban war emerging.