Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Despite Barack Obama’s economic sanctions against Russia, and the plunge in oil prices that King Saud agreed to with Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry on 11 September 2014, the economic damages […]
ALASTAIR CROOKE It seems that the Chinese leadership has concluded that the Trump Administration is determined to use its full spectrum radical leverage to hobble China as a rival, and to resurrect its own global […]
by Pepe Escobar (cross-posted with the Asia Times by special agreement with the author) Trump’s solo act can’t compete with the hard rock presidents from the electric east Those were the days, during the Cold War 1960s and […]
by Peter Koenig for The Saker Blog Sanctions left and sanctions right. Financial mostly, taxes, tariffs, visas, travel bans – confiscation of foreign assets, import and export prohibitions and limitations; and also punishing those who […]
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2003. His AKP party had won a major election victory in 2002, but Erdogan was banned from political office until his predecessor Gül […]
Lord Jacob Rothschild has issued a warning this week noting that the current economic and political climate is threatening the “post-war economic and security order.” (ZH) — Over the past three years, an unexpected voice of […]
The only way to pay all these future obligations is by creating new money. I’ve been focusing on inflation, which is more properly understood as the loss of purchasing power of a currency, which when taken to […]
Raúl Ilargi Meijer There’s not a shade of a doubt that I’m not an expert on tariffs, trade barriers and subsidies, and I’d be the last to suggest any such thing. But I can read. […]
Tyler Durden, The brief rebound in the Yuan is over as a barrage of headlines from China and US spark renewed concerns at Beijing’s ability to withstand Washington’s war. Just when you thought the trend had […]
by Tyler Durden Authored by Tom Luongo, Lost in all of the geopolitical noise are some basic concepts of economics. It’s no secret that China’s economy has been built by their openly mercantilist economic policies. Mercantilism is, […]
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