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Independent research on Chinese strategic dependency, dollar architecture, institutional failure, and the gap between what governments say and what they do.
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China
The Largest Bailout in Human History Is Still Running
China's economy is not a miracle. It is a permanent rescue operation disguised as development — and unlike every other bailout in history, this one has no exit strategy.
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Dollar Architecture
What the Framework Cannot See — and What to Use Instead
The dominant failure in Western China analysis is not methodological sophistication. It is input quality. Sophisticated models applied to compromised inputs produce confidently wrong answers.
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NATO · Geopolitics
Trump's Trillion and NATO's Credibility Gap
The Ankara summit produced impressive numbers and a very disappointed president. Both things are simultaneously true. The gap between them is the story.
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Institutional Architecture
The G7 Summit Is Theater — and the Audience Knows It
The performance is not for the leaders' own publics. It is staged for Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang — and the gap between the script and the machinery has never been wider.
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Working Papers · SSRN
J. Ken Rhodes
M.A. Economics — Certified Private Equity Professional
Former Chief of Securities, State of Tennessee
Regulation D Drafting Committee · Federal Court Expert Witness
Real Estate Private Equity · Capital Markets · Financial Regulation
Former Chief of Securities, State of Tennessee
Regulation D Drafting Committee · Federal Court Expert Witness
Real Estate Private Equity · Capital Markets · Financial Regulation