The Free Trade Charade

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel

Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel

And that is like the picture on the outside of a jigsaw puzzle box.

What kind of nation China aspires to be, and where it is ultimately headed, is still something of a conundrum.

At the global level, a host of inter governmental organizations is tasked with addressing various pieces of the energy puzzle.

Samson said to them, Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing

And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments

The plot involves an obsession with the 23 enigma, an esoteric belief that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to 23.

As the economist Dan Kuehn likes to say, a recession is like somebody knocking your jigsaw puzzle, disturbing the pieces, and turning some of them over.

Kosovo is the last piece of the Balkan jigsaw puzzle, and it is of the utmost importance that all actors engage constructively so as to put the final piece of the puzzle in place as soon as possible.