Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing. By PHELIM KINE with STUART LAU Send tips here | Tweet @PhelimKine or @StuartKLau | Subscribe for free | View in your browser H… Read More
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This week Wall Street will learn how quickly the US consumer is weakening and if the manufacturing part of the economy is close to entering recovery mode. The US retail sales report for S… Read More
The most divisive issue among Republicans today is what to do about Ukraine. It pits establishment Republican hawks against MAGA Republicans. It’s holding up a final budget agreement… Read More
When Neocon-Americans became a force after WWII, the US economy grew. That is how the US became a superpower. When another set of Neocon-Americans also joined the party in 1992, America dec… Read More
Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing. By PHELIM KINE with STUART LAU Send tips here | Tweet @PhelimKine or @StuartKLau | Subscribe for free | View in your browser H… Read More
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Two delegations of U.S. lawmakers are planning trips to China this fall in what would be the latest in a string of high-level visits, encouraged by… Read More
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When you think of Puerto Escondido, the first thing that comes to mind is its stunning surf and beaches. But this beautiful Mexican b… Read More
Ukrainian losses in battle are greatly exceeded by those of the Russians, who have suffered well over 300,000 military casualties – REUTERS/Sofiia GatilovaThe Russians are losing their… Read More
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“The End Is Nearing” – Seymour Hersh Slams The White House’s “Wishful Approach” To Ukraine War Authored by Seymour Hersh via Substack It’s been week… Read More
In a darkened hotel ballroom in San Jose, Calif., last November, the most powerful players in the semiconductor industry received a familiar sales pitch.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the major… Read More
Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.
Rate hike concerns are weighing on precious metals markets this week.
The Federal Reserve lifted its benchmark funds… Read More
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It will be an eventful week, the ISM manufacturing report, the fourth of July Holiday, the Fed Minutes, and the nonfarm payroll report. Wall Street is starting to believe in those F… Read More
Digital Zeitgeist – US Debt Ceiling Deal Narrowly Passes Senate Averting Catastrophic Federal Default
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In a crucial turn of events, the United States Senate narrowly passe… Read More
Upper Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari will leave office after completing his two terms in office.
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Dow closes more than 200 points lower for fourth straight day of losses, dragged down by Disney – CNBC because Democrat policies and Biden are a mess. https://t… Read More
Obama promises the USA Rawlsian ballsObama will be cowed into compromising over any plans to tax and spend on the poor unless that spending is merely strategic, focused and highly limited … Read More
Moscow Boots 20 German Diplomats In Tit-for-Tat Mass Expulsion
At a moment G7 countries are mulling whether or not to ratchet the sanctions regimen on Moscow further, relations… Read More
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Unplugging TikTok will be harder than it looks
In the summer of 2020, in the midst of re-election and looking for new ways to punish China, President Donald J. Trump threatened to cut o… Read More
China‘s in the spotlight on Capitol Hill with two hearings just Tuesday — one of them on primetime TV. The Biden administration and some members of Congress are focus… Read More
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House Republicans approved a set of rules for the 118th Congress on Monday, marking the first test of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ability to lead… Read More
The hail of indiscriminate missile fire across Ukraine this morning was Russia’s brutal payback for the attack on the Crimean bridge.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called it t… Read More
Iran’s Islamic clerical regime is divided in its response to months of unprecedented protests, wavering between repression and what it views as conciliatory gestures trying to qu… Read More
France’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the Burkina Faso government was fully aware of the risks of working with mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group after Ghana… Read More
JAUKUS? A Pacific alliance of Japan, Australia, the UK, and the USA.In the previous post, “Can Britain Draw India into the West?”, I talked about Britain's joint project of dev… Read More