IMF loans, subsidies, Gulf Petrol monarchy financing abroad all help al-Sisi defeat a domestic insurgency.

OPEC cartel cannot equal 12 million bar. per/day like US exporters. OPEC is finished like the rest of the Petrol Monarchies.

Cuba & Russia remain Venezuela's protectors, hurting them means helping Venezuela.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-offbeat-genius-of-a-great-american-spy-11548478837

End mandates impacting unemployment (Humphrey/Hawkins) mandates; keep prince stability instead.

How Vockler saved western civilization and the canard that there are limits to growth (stagflation); the Keynesian impossibility of having both inflation & unemployment (the Phillips Curve.)

If businesses can expense annual capital expenditures, economic growth insures.

"Leaders don't spend precious capital, they get issues off their desk".

After teaching at Berkeley ('68) and working in govmint, Glazer gave up on his youthful Trotskyite socio-political ambitions.

Zero growth b/c they've damaged their relations to their greatest buyer, the US. Open the capital account & pursue liberalization of capital-bond markets; peg the currency to US dollar.