Where finance and media intersect with reality.
Investors can’t afford to get swept up by the propaganda wars. To stay afloat in such choppy market waters one has to maintain a cool and relatively dispassionate head. And doing so is not unpatriotic.
Why the stress in commodity credit lines could be indicative of a major dollar-financing paradigm shift.
As the global Covid-19 pandemic swept through the globe in 2020 devastating lives and national economies, a small community of scientists operating in a fringe
Earlier this week I hosted a Twitter Spaces session with two world-leading experts in the field of biodefence, Filippa Lentzos from King’s College London and
Finance, business, markets etc … There’s been a powerful earthquake in Fukushima. Barclays has suspended two ETNs, the iPath Pure Beta Crude Oil ETN and
In big news for Catholics around the world, Vatican News reported on Wednesday that the Pope would consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart
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.