Yves here. Readers often take issue with some of the details of John Ruehl’s posts, but he focuses on interesting issues and his pieces elicit good reader discussions. Today the topic is how the US is in the forefront of the greater influence of our new oligarchs, which Ruehl calls the businessman-politician. By John P. Ruehl, an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C., and a world affairs correspondent for the Independent Media Institute. He is a contributor to several foreign affairs publications, and his book, Budget Superpower: How Russia Challenges the West With an Economy Smaller Than Texas’, was published…