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Dear Subscribers, It’s gearing up to be a very busy October. And the big news over at the Blind Spot is that we have relaunched
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Dear Subscribers, It’s gearing up to be a very busy October. And the big news over at the Blind Spot is that we have relaunched

Izabella Kaminska10:26 10:28 Hello and welcome back to SPOT MARKETS LIVE. Yes, we’re back. Mainly because the markets are looking a little iffy again. But

By Wilhelmine Preussen · Oct 11, 2023 GRUNHEIDE, Germany — Grünheide isn’t a household name, even in Germany — but Elon Musk’s announcement four years

Dear Subscribers, Welcome to the new look Blind Spot newsletter. We have given up on the old formatting because it was making everything look horrible

By Bartosz Brzeziński, Paula Andrés · Oct 6, 2023 BRUSSELS — Franc Bogovič spent 16 years selling pesticides. Now he’s leading the charge in Brussels

As the United States confronts an impending government shutdown amid an unwelcome outbreak of bond vigilantism, an unexpected remedy to global financial implosion might just

If you’ve not heard of it, semaglutide (also known as Ozempic, Wegovy) is the wonder weight loss drug that is currently storming the world, and

Salve Romani, How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Because the answer for me and my fellow anacyclosis-minded buddy Tim Ferguson is, obviously,

By Ben Munster, Izabella Kaminska · Sep 28, 2023, A high-stakes electoral gamble over inflation by Poland’s central bank may be about to pay off,

Dear Subscribers, I want to start this weekend’s newsletter with a historic tale of sour financial grapes that has had a huge bearing on how

Greetings and salutations. Turn on. Tune in. And drop out. A phrase first spoken by counterculture radical Timothy Leary in 1966. But, as Leary also

By Victor Jack · Sep 11, 2023 BRUSSELS — The EU should step in and spend €100 million on solar panels made by European companies