Thanks again to reader vao who has been diligently following the sorry tale of how sanctions are hindering the operations of the Rosneft refinery in Schwedt, which provides a meaningful portion…
Yves here. It’s good to see pushback against the received wisdom that China is planning to occupy Taiwan. This piece by Michael Klare has some sour notes, such as ignoring…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I am finishing up a post on a horrid public relations debacle at WHO, and so this Water Cooler is sadly truncated. Talk…
As the ripples of contagion from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank spread out, one European bank is particularly vulnerable. And despite losing over 95% of its…
Yves here. Even with the business press awash with post mortems of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SBV) and editorial comment about the de facto extension of a deposit…
Li Qiang, the country’s No. 2 leader, sought to reassure entrepreneurs who have been wary of making new investments.
By Lauren Sausser, who covers health care across the South as a member of KHN’s Southern Bureau. She is based in Charleston, where she previously spent nine years covering health…
Legions of European companies are succumbing to the final straw of Europe’s largely self-inflicted energy crisis. Bankruptcy proceedings in the Canary Islands, Spain’s heavily tourism-dependent island chain, soared a whopping…
The great unwashed American public is being subjected to yet another round of “Cream for me, crumbs for thee” in the form of a bailout of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. “All that is solid melts into air.” –Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto “Gentlemen, I as leader will use power like a drum…