Richard E. Caroll

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I am a retired economist, and a retired soldier. I have a degree in Economics and a degree in Liberal Arts. While in the military my specialty was in Intelligence and Administration.

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The European Union Should Help Fund An Oil Pipeline from the Gulf to The Mediterranean

While the United States enjoys sufficient energy resources, thanks to shale oil, the European Union does not. To assure itself of the energy supplies...

A Hybrid Approach for a Federal Sovereign Wealth Fund

While this author has long called for a United States Wealth Fund to be started by excise taxes on mineral wealth extracted from federal...

The Geopolitics of Lunar Helium-3 pMining and the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund Stagnation

The greatest geopolitical and economic challenge facing the United States today is the proliferation of international Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs.) While the United States...

A Mercantilist Economic Policy Causes War

The election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency of the United States has brought a dramatic change in the economic policy of the...

A Geopolitical Sweet Spot for Türkiye

Recent events in the Middle East have put Türkiye in a geopolitical sweet spot. There have been several changes on the world political scene...

How Türkiye Will Benefit from the Trump Doctrine

On February 28, 2025, in a broadcast watched around the world, President Donald J. Trump unintentionally launched the policy of the Trump Doctrine. In...

The Interests of the European Union and the United States Are Diverging

Since the end of World War 2, the economic and political interests of Europe, later the European Union, and the United States were perfectly...

The Global Balance of Power is Rapidly Shifting

From the founding of NATO in 1949, the world balance of power has been centered on the West working to deter aggression of Russia...

The Interests of the European Union and the United States Are Diverging

Since the end of World War 2, the economic and political interests of Europe, later the European Union, and the United States were perfectly...

Could the Mandate of Heaven Change from Beijing to Taipei?

There are multiple internal issues facing the governing party in China.  The continuing deflation forces racking the Chinese economy was brought on by the...

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