This blog is intended to educate, enlighten, amuse and ( hopefully) persuade. It is not my intention to annoy, or insult or provoke the reader. However, in the current hyper-sensitive political and economic environment, I am pretty sure that some of my posts, or my guest bloggers’ posts, will rub readers the wrong way. My overall intention is to try to have the reader look at current economic and/or geopolitical things in the news in more depth, and think about the potential implications…