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National Defense & Transition!
I wrote about America’s national defense on the Sunday before Trump 2.0 Inauguration Day (https://kotokreport.com/national-defense/). Many thanks to readers for their varied viewpoints and responses. Here are some additional observations. First, a disclosure: I hold a defense-sector ETF exposure in my personal investment account. I’m not recommending anything, just disclosing. What you read here is…
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Guest Comments: David Blond Responds to Kotok’s “National Defense”
During the early days of the Reagan Administration, David Blond was the Senior Economist, Office of the Secretary of Defense. He sent me this note in response to the piece I wrote about national defense (which can be found at https://kotokreport.com/national-defense/). He was kind enough to give me permission to share some of his personal observations. So…
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National Defense
Readers, please note that this is my opinion alone. I’m writing this in the midst of a continuously changing environment for the defense of the United States as the Biden regime transitions to the Trump 2.0 administration. Trump’s rhetoric (I hope that’s all it is) about military action in Panama or acquiring Greenland or intensifying…