Following his election in 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to reset relations with francophone Africa based on a “partnership of equals.” If anyone has been doing so,…
The US is trying to hold its high ground of dominance of the semiconductor industry via export restrictions and subsidies to increased domestic manufacturing, notably via the Chips Act. Yet…
Conor here: As the following piece demonstrates, it sure is convenient for US natural gas production that Russia and Europe have been severed and someone blew up those Nord Stream…
Yves here. This sort of well-meaning piece makes me want to tear out my hair. Yes, dealing with climate change is ultimately a governance problem, but not in the way…
Conor here: In fairness, the Ohio EPA says everything is completely under control. From the Highland County Press: According to the Ohio EPA, the contractor created a depression in the…
Yves here. The UK (and US) have managed to disappear Julian Assange just as effectively as Gitmo detainees. Yet those terror suspects, who overwhelmingly were low level individuals who happened…
Yves here. Perhaps I don’t have the right media diet, but the East Palestine toxic explosion appears to have moved out of prime news coverage awfully quickly. And before you…
Readers may question why the New York Fed would publish a research paper that described a new mechanism by which the US caring only about the effects of its monetary…
Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth? Scientific American All the recessions that didn’t happen Yahoo News This Rare Asteroid May Be Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy. Now NASA…
The nearshoring trend is triggering a significant influx of global companies, including Tesla and many of its suppliers, to Northern Mexico, particularly the state of Nuevo León. But is there…