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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
Greetings, dear subscribers. Given the “we are not alone” UAP news this week, I’ve let Dario loose on his favourite subject in today’s newsletter, as
By Izabella Kaminska · Jun 8, 2023 LONDON — Governments should consider an international moratorium on the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) due
Greetings Blind Spotters. It’s Saturday and the weather seems to have turned in the UK. Hurrah! And since the US didn’t default, we can all
By Izabella Kaminska · Jun 1, 2023 Protecting their business from interest-rate risk is supposed to be what banks specialize in. But a report from
By Ben Munster · May 30, 2023 ROME — Massive and imposing, Italy’s central bank looms behind a barbed perimeter of black iron and angular
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This week’s edition of the Blind Spot newsletter was compiled by me, Izabella Kaminska, with the help of Dario Garcia Giner + some of my