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Welcome to the third episode of Season Two of the Leaked Lunch podcast with economist and author Guy Standing. The recording, which you can listen
By Ben Munster · Jun 29, 2023 The ECB and other central banks famously communicate monetary policy almost entirely through covert signals and coded messaging.
Dear Subscribers, As noted yesterday, this weekend’s newsletter has been split in two to better cover breaking news elements this Sunday. One of those breaking
Dear Subscribers, We come into Saturday evening with an apparent would-be coup being unwound in Russia, but also in the grips of two other high
Note to readers: The send out of our weekly newsletter has been postponed so that we can update for recent events and upcoming news we
By Barbara Moens, Sarah Anne Aarup · Jun 19, 2023 The European Commission is preparing to ditch its long-held free-market ideals as geopolitics and U.S.-China
I’ve wasted most of my precious Saturday messing about with the world’s worst content management system in an attempt to recover a failed newsletter send-out
Dear Subscribers, welcome to another Blind Spot newsletter. This week, I’m afraid to say, has proven a bit of a comedy of errors on my
By Ben Munster · Jun 16, 2023 ROME — Italian courts are nearing the end of a puzzling and long-running drama around an elusive former
By Mari Eccles · Jun 15, 2023 BRUSSELS — Airlines are falling over themselves to trumpet what a great summer they’re expecting. “The message from
By Wojciech Kość · Jun 13, 2023 WARSAW — For years Poland boasted that its vast coal reserves helped keep power prices down, but that’s
By Carlo Martuscelli · Jun 12, 2023, MEPs in the European Parliament’s special committee tasked with learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic (COVI) approved the