Yves here. Finance people will immediately recognize that outside of loan-sharking, lenders showing profits on defaulted loans is unheard of. Yet my goodness, Uncle Sam is doing a very good…
Yves here. Your humble blogger must confess to having neglected the Brexit beat after following it intensely while the UK-EU negotiations were in full swing. The wee problem, as Chris…
While Türkiye is still reeling from the Feb. 6 earthquake, NATO is not letting up on its push to peel Ankara away from Moscow. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg was in…
Yves here. This is a solid, wide-ranging summary of what the Collective West economic sanctions have wrought. It’s readable and accessible to laypeople, so I hope you’ll circulate it widely.…
Yves here. This post points out how parties and candidates on the outside, even in countries that routinely from coalition government and thus have some familiarity with power sharing, in…
Yves here. As many of you no doubt know, Rebecca Solnit, among other things, wrote a seminal book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster.…
Yves here. As an adult who has issues with impulse control (after years of being unable to voice anger, I’m now too casual about it), it’s not hard to see…
Putin delivered his annual report to the Duma, Russia’s analogue to the US State of the Union, at noon Moscow time. It was delayed from its typical year end slot…
“Nigeria must go cashless. It is a global policy, checking insecurity and fighting corruption”: Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele Like India in 2016, Nigeria is undergoing the shock…
Yves here. The fact that the gas price cap has retreated from headlines does not mean it has gone away. Irina Slav explains why it’s inconsequential now but could have…