{"id":323,"date":"2005-04-20T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=323"},"modified":"2005-04-20T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T16:32:00","slug":"ten-year-forecast-global-politics-and-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/20\/ten-year-forecast-global-politics-and-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Year Forecast: Global Politics and Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--111374929882634722--><\/p>\n<p>I read John Mauldin&#8217;s weekly markets and investments letter.  Last week he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontlinethoughts.com\/printarticle.asp?id=mwo041505\">digested<\/a> a ten-year geo-political forecast  by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stratfor.com\">stratfor.com<\/a>, &#8220;private, quasi-CIA intelligence service&#8221; and makes connections to global markets.  The letter and forecast touch on the breakup in China, market breakdown in Russia, collapse of the dollar, and the growing pains of &#8220;moderate&#8221; Islam.  Fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<p>There is wisdom in not reading news of big stories that we can&#8217;t act on.  A lot of crime news would fall into this category.  A lot of political commentary too.  I use bits like Mauldin&#8217;s letters to orient myself in the big world so that I can act, invest, vote and converse more effectively in my own small and local worlds.  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catallaxis.com\/\">Dan O&#8217;Connor<\/a> for the initial tip on Mauldin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read John Mauldin&#8217;s weekly markets and investments letter. Last week he digested a ten-year geo-political forecast by stratfor.com, &#8220;private, quasi-CIA intelligence service&#8221; and makes connections to global markets. The letter and forecast touch on the breakup in China, market breakdown in Russia, collapse of the dollar, and the growing pains of &#8220;moderate&#8221; Islam. Fascinating &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/20\/ten-year-forecast-global-politics-and-markets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ten Year Forecast: Global Politics and Markets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}