There’s no military strength without economic strength. Since governments produce nothing, their capacity to fund militaries a little or a lot is an effect of taxable access to prosperity.
It’s worth remembering as Mohamed El-Erian writes at the New York Times that the central planning recently espoused by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent very much resembles what El-Erian preaches to his paper-chasing flock at Wharton.
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