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<title><![CDATA[Philip Pilkington - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/35291.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Philip Pilkington]]></description><category domain="35291">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Greenland, Ukraine and the Delusional Europeans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/greenland-is-a-punishment-for-europes-role-in-ukraine/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Greenland rhetoric has knocked European leaders completely off balance. Whether this was the intended effect of Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s threats or the president simply wants to take the island matters little at this stage'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'the most important objective impact that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Aircraft Carriers Are Becoming Obsolete]]></title>
							<link>https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-aircraft-carriers-are-becoming-obsolete-214442</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The carrier is too large, slow, and costly to evade rapidly evolving missile technology.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Is Tanking the U.S. Treasury]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/joe-biden-is-tanking-the-us-treasury/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States Treasury has a problem on its hands. Due to the Biden administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s enormous spending, this year the Treasury has'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' issued'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' net $2 trillion in new debt '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' over 8% of GDP. Due to its Quantitative Tightening (QT) programme, the Federal Reserve is currently...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Will Lose If Gas Prices Keep Rising]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/why-biden-will-lose-if-gas-prices-keep-rising-as-they-seem-set-to-do/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US-Saudi relationship soured when President Joe Biden took office, and now Biden's reelection prospects may suffer, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Troubling Developments in the Credit Markets]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/federal-funds-rate-signals-big-trouble-ahead/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The federal funds rate signals big economic trouble ahead, as the vicious circle of stimulus and rate hikes continues.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mired in Stagnation: Is It 2008 All Over Again?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/its-starting-look-like-2008-all-over-again-opinion-1806051</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Surveying the current economic landscape, it would take something resembling a miracle to pull the economy out of its current stagnation and avoid a recession.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Credit Crunch Has Begun]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/credit-crunch-coming-opinion-1799542</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hopefully, after the smoke clears on the coming credit crunch we can raise questions about how the Fed and other central banks behave.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Big Cities Are at Risk of Turning Into Detroit]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/why-big-cities-like-new-york-are-at-risk-of-turning-into-detroit/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Credit standards are tightening. That means it is becoming harder to get a loan.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bailouts Won't Prevent a Financial Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/bailouts-wont-prevent-a-financial-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It appears that 2023 could be remembered as the year that marked the beginning of a new financial crisis. When'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Silicon Valley Bank'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Signature'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' collapsed in March, optimists argued that this was an idiosyncrasy driven by the banks'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' large holdings of startup deposits....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We About To Enter a Full-Scale Banking Crisis?]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/are-we-about-to-enter-a-full-scale-banking-crisis/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When is a banking crisis a banking crisis? These past few days we have seen the failure of multiple banks. The action started with Silicon Valley Bank and soon spread to Signature Bank, making those two the second and largest bank failures in American history respectively. Significant...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanctions Have Hurt Us Far More Than Russia]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/have-sanctions-really-hurt-russia/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last week the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' released'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a weekly snapshot of Russian fossil fuel exports. Since the price cap on Russian oil was announced in December 2022 and the snapshot provides data up until February 2023, it allows us to assess how effective...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Russian Oil Price Cap Won't Work]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/the-russian-oil-price-cap-wont-work/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, amid a major energy crisis which is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' decimating'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' European industry, Western countries'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a price cap that they intend to impose on Russian oil. The idea is that these countries will get together and refuse to pay any more than their stated price for Russian...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Oil Sanctions Have Failed and Are Only Hurting Us]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2022/10/21/oil-sanctions-only-hurt-us-and-help-putin-theres-a-better-way/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, Western nations, including the United States and those in Europe, were quick to slap punitive sanctions on the country. The idea was to punish Russia for the invasion by collapsing its economy. President Biden told the public the goal was to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[OPEC+'s Oil Cuts Signal Biden Admin's Impotence]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/thepost/opecs-oil-cuts-signal-a-new-world-order/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[OPEC+'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' announced'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on Wednesday that it would make production cuts of 2 million barrels per day, which is roughly equivalent to 2% of global supply. The decision is monumental. It shows that a new type of world is emerging in the wake of the war in Ukraine, and one that does not revolve...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Demographics Are GOP's Destiny&mdash;If They Embrace It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/demographics-are-gops-destinyif-they-embrace-it-opinion-1613168</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Pilkington</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The more Republicans can foster large, stable families, the better they will do in future elections.]]></description>
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