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Insights and Reflections

David Kotok offers insights and analysis on current economic and political issues and their potential impact on global financial markets. David’s articles and financial market commentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and other publications. He is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg TV, and Bloomberg Radio, Fox Business, and other media.

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National Defense

Readers, please note that this is my opinion alone.

I’m writing this in the midst of a continuously changing environment for the defense of the United States as the Biden regime transitions to the Trump 2.0 administration. Trump’s rhetoric (I hope that’s all it is) about military action in Panama or acquiring Greenland or intensifying tariff wars with our closest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, are happening in a globally diverse and rapidly changing world.

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Fires & Hurricanes!

The California fires will end up setting records in billions in a catastrophe loss. On the East Coast a similar new record cost will continue to be revealed as the trifecta hurricane damages from Debby, Helene, and Milton continue to mount.

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Lee Zeldin, HFCs & the New Year

I wish all readers a healthy and happy new year. Let’s get to a very specific item that may impact every one of us in 2025.

President-elect Trump has proposed former New York congressman Lee Zeldin to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Fishing for Fed’s Independence

First, I want to wish all readers the very best and safest holiday celebrations. Our Congress celebrated, too, by giving the United States an added cost of about $50 billion a year in the nation’s interest rate burden.

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Syria

Assad and company are now with his sponsor, asylum granting Putin (nickname is Putler), in Moscow.

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Post-election Analysis, China, Tariffs

On the day after the election, Kathleen Hays was kind enough to invite me to interview with my initial thoughts about the election outcome as we knew it to be then. I subsequently published a transcript of the interview and the link to Kathleen’s Substack.

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How Lame Are The Ducks?

We wish all readers a safe and successful Thanksgiving weekend. We’re about to enter the ‘’lame duck” congressional session. Will we have 3 weeks of chaos or clarity?

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North Korea, Russia, and History

On Sunday, October 27, 2024, I cited the evolution of history in the WW2 era, in the 1930s and the 1940s, and got a lot of responses (“A History Lesson?” https://kotokreport.com/a-history-lesson/). We thank readers for those responses. 

 One astute reader had a sensible question about my October 27th missive. He asked, how could Stalin’s divisions that he sent into Germany have been combat-trained against the Japanese when the dates don’t work?

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