Robert Hormats

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  • MEET THE PRESS — Pictured: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates Founder appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington D.C., Sunday, Apr. 13, 2025 — (Photo by: Shannon Finney/NBC via Getty Images)Commentary

    Ray Dalio fears ‘something worse than a recession.’ If anything his fears are understated

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  • An unspecified guide and interpreter, with Timothy Elbourne (1938-2004) of Presidential Press Office, Chinese Government Official Wang Hsiao-i, a member of the People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries; American State Department Official Al Jenkins, member of the NSC staff and and Kissinger’s secretary Julienne Pineau, German-born American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, American Secret Service Official Jack Ready, and Winston Lord of the NSC staff, as Kissinger visits the Summer Palace in Beijing, China. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)Commentary

    Henry Kissinger didn’t take much interest in the global economy at first–until he did and changed it forever

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  • MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – JANUARY 26: People roller skate on the beach at St. Kilda on Australia Day on January 26, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Australia Day, formerly known as Foundation Day, is the official national day of Australia and is celebrated annually on January 26 to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet to Sydney in 1788. Many indigenous Australians refer to the day as ‘Invasion Day’ and there is a growing movement to change the date to one which can be celebrated by all Australians. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)Commentary

    This generation of politicians has killed fiscal responsibility–but millennials and Gen Zers will be the ones who pay the price

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  • US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, November 14, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)Commentary

    I worked for Henry Kissinger when America first engaged China in the 1970s. Here’s why I think the two countries still have a chance to mend their ties

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  • WASHINGTON – SEPTEMBER 19: A statue of the first United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton stands in front of the U.S. Treasury September 19, 2008 in Washington, DC. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the Treasury will insure money market mutual funds as one part of a massive government bailout that is attempting to stabilize the current financial crisis. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Commentary

    America had the debate about paying its debt after the Revolution and the Civil War. Here’s why we reached the same conclusion twice

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