An American in Siberia Gives a Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of Sanctions on Russia
An on-the-ground take on how Western sanctions are affecting ordinary Russians.
Read more...An on-the-ground take on how Western sanctions are affecting ordinary Russians.
Read more...The US is gambling with its superpower status by putting its dollar hegemony in play to hurt the Russian economy.
Read more...Russia is scrambling to deal with being shut off Visa and Mastercard.
Read more...News on the partial SWIFT cutoff for Russia was fuzzy. Despite being included, its central bank intervened in FX markets this AM. What gives?
Read more...An increase in global financial risk causes a large and persistent widening of sovereign spreads, with the spillover effects especially pronounced for speculative-grade sovereign debt
Read more...The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
Read more...America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder
Read more...A constitutional convention is remaking Chile to break with the model forged by murderous dictator Augusto Pinochet
Read more...Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
Read more...Public authorities should refrain from taking measures supporting additional investment flows into Bitcoin and should treat it as rigorously as the conventional financial industry to combat illicit payments, money laundering, and terrorist financing
Read more...Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods economic system.
Read more...The more you look at the cryptocurrency Tether, the less there is to like.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains why Bitcoin is not good for much except enriching early adopters and intermediaries.
Read more...If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.
Read more...You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.
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