Black and White Program

Posts from June 2011

A dip in confidence, bad jobs stats, and playing chicken with the Chinese

June 17th, 2011 by John Eastman | Report

We read from a recent survey of CEO’s in the U.S. Business Roundtable that 51% of them project higher sales and plan to spend more capital in the next six months. This would seem to be positive news. However, their optimism regarding the economic climate and expansion for growth is less enthusiastic than from 3 [...]

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Cyber Attacks and Declarations of war

June 10th, 2011 by John Eastman | Report

Can a cyber-attack be considered equivalent to a traditional act of war for a country? The Obama administration is trying to develop policy to sort this issue out and have a rapid response to it that is not over reaching but is as effective as more traditional attack and war responses. Possible responses include economic [...]

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