Yves here. With too much Trump-generated furor, we’ve managed to skip over a potentially important development, that of a possible slow-motion currency crisis/bond market temper tantrum in the UK. To…
In a striking sign of the Chinese economy’s stagnation, the central bank said on Friday that it had temporarily stopped buying government bonds. The central bank’s unexpected action is aimed…
The Supreme Court’s rejection on Thursday of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s request to be spared from being sentenced for 34 felonies was just a few lines long, and it made…
Western economists and financiers have so regularly predicted a crash or zombification outcome to China’s spectacular run of growth that it’s too easy to dismiss stories about deflation risk as…
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russia is closely monitoring the situation, after US President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out military action to take Greenland from Denmark. Peskov…
At 20 years old, Pierre Poilievre already had a roadmap for Canada. Canada’s Conservative Party leader – now 45 – laid out a low-tax, small government vision for the country…
AFP Ashish Chauhan dreams of pursuing an MBA at an American university next year – a goal he describes as being “stamped in his brain”. The 29-year-old finance professional from…
Iran’s top ranking general in Syria has contradicted the official line taken by Iran’s leaders on the sudden downfall of their ally Bashar al-Assad, saying in a remarkably candid speech…
In easier times for Egypt’s refugees, Azza Mostafa, a pro-government TV anchor, had nothing but generous words for the many thousands of Syrians who had built new lives in Egypt…
Reuters Germany and France have warned Donald Trump against threatening Greenland, after the US president-elect refused to rule out using military force to seize Denmark’s autonomous territory. German Chancellor Olaf…