Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

Just three countries have so far introduced CBDCs, according to the IMF, and two of them are already having serious issues. 

“We are asking for respect.”

Even critical paragraphs on how NHS patients’ personal data will be handled have been blacked out.

The economic data for January, Milei’s first full month in office, makes for sobering reading.

Another embarrassing setback for US foreign policy interests, this time in its so-called “back yard” (or as Biden calls it, “front yard”).

A new escalation in the war on what governments deem to be medical mis-, dis- and mal-information appears to be under way.

The Spanish banking giant doesn’t appear to have heard of the Streisand effect. Or perhaps it considers itself immune from its fallout

The impact is likely to be significant for a country that is already reeling from an economic crisis and whose government is in the process of unleashing yet another round of IMF-approved austerity. Almost exactly a month ago, Ecuador’s US-born and -raised, son-of-a-billionaire president, Daniel Noboa, announced his controversial decision to deliver outdated weapons of […]

What is being proposed is obviously a terrible deal for NHS patients. But could the Tony Blair Institute’s biggest donor benefit handsomely?

“There was no evidence for what they were trying to say,” said former DEA agent Mike Vigil. “I did not see any evidence that López Obrador was involved, had knowledge or intention of receiving ‘hot money’ from drug traffickers.”

“This legislation… is a Trojan horse: it presents a facade of respecting democratic principles… But behind this liberal facade, the exact opposite is happening: an attack is taking place against the constitutional order.”

The “iron river” continues to flow.

Until now, Latin American nations had refused to play a direct role in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, preferring to take a more neutral approach. But that fragile unity has been shattered.

Are national governments in the Euro Area about to lose another vital piece of their economic sovereignty?

The answer, it seems, is nothing. But some governments, including the UK and Australia, are now modifying their laws to make sure it is no longer illegal.