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Here are a few thorny issues for your week's consideration.  The News Feed .  Have you wondered what news feed that foreign leaders read about the USA?   For example, if Canada's PM Trudeau listens only to CNN he learns one thing; if he listens to FOX he learns another.  If he listens to the White House he learns more insider information we don’t know.  So, how does he compute his operational calculus?  How would you?  Not so easy, yes?  And Canada is tiny - and friendly.  Multiply all this by 5x or 10x gives a complexity glimmer of USA negotiations with other nations, e.g. China.  What news from the USA do they compute with?  I don’t know.  Do you?   Just how are these deals done?  Almost all of us are completely naive and inexperienced on such interactions.  We guess. We criticize. But actually we just don't know.  ----------------- The Insider Betrayal .  This is the politician that sells out their own party for little gain but notoriety.  Mostly, they h

Scott Walker.  Another order of toast has been served in the form of Scott Walker, who suspended his campaign yesterday. Both Perry and Walker, successful governors of their respective states, are now gone.   If we are following governors we would expect to see Huckabee, Jindal, and Pataki  withdraw in the near term.  Governors have the tremendous advantages of needing to work within a state system, and without the option of deficit spending.  Governors usually have the record of working successfully with the opposition, a skill diminished and even deprecated  in recent years. This would be a shame for the alternatives will become outsiders and insiders - plus the remaining governors.   All those still in the game have their own calculus on who they want in and who should go.  The remaining governors no doubt celebrate the Walker exit, though lauding his experiential excellence - whatever that means.  I suggest that for some candidates, the rise of Trump, Fiorina, and Carson will s