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We all know the Ukrainians are winning the infowar, and we also know they haven’t always been honest about their claims. But I don’t think
ROME, ITALY (The Blind Spot) – Gaius Julius Caesar, winner of the Civic Crown, conqueror of Gaul, and dictator perpetuo, was fatally stabbed on Tuesday
I’ve been trying to figure out what happens to a modern financial system in a global wartime framework, especially a financial system as interconnected and
Finance, economics, markets… Goldman’s GQG fund has cut Russian exposure to $222m. This follows the IPO of GQG Partners on the ASX in October 2021,
From Gain of Function research to biological warfare threats in Ukraine In the summer of 2020, when the zoonotic origin story for Covid was the
I asked Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to NATO and former US special representative for Ukraine, whether the West can handle the risk that sanctions blowback is worse for us than it is for Russia.
Two days before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, on February 22, I took part in a conversation with Stefano Marani, the CEO of Renergen, a compressed natgas, helium and LNG producer. Here’s what he told me:
Finance, markets, business etc: Jeff Snider debates Joseph Wang regarding whether the Fed really controls the dollar. The Canadian dollar is decoupling from oil. Getting
Rome’s capitatio-iugatio was one of the world’s first gosplan systems and a precursor to the feudal serf structures that came to dominate in the medieval ages. Today both the Russian and Chinese technocratic system are channelling similar structures in their rollout of retail-linked CBDCs.
EXCERPT: Commodity markets are being strained by unprecedented daily price moves on the back of the Russia/Ukraine crisis.
Commodity carnage: Listen to my Twitter Spaces with Frances Coppola and Chris Cook here. (We’ll be back tomor as well). China is buying up all
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