The Wall Street Journal tried its best to present Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a leader who is exhausted trying to achieve a diplomatic end to his country’s paranoid aggression in the Middle East by running a headline: “Qatar Strike Shows Netanyahu is Done Talking.”
Israel’s decision to carry out a bombing attack on Hamas negotiators in Doha was the latest example of how Tel Aviv has never been interested in a diplomatic resolution to the Gaza genocide to obtain its hostages still in Hamas possession, WSWS said in a report.
Because governments are giving “insufficient supervision” to stablecoins, they may be forced into multibillion-dollar bailouts if the market for the digital currencies goes bad, Jean Tirole, 2014’s Nobel Prize winner in economics, said in a Financial Times interview.
China has announced a tariff of as much as 62 percent on pork imported from the European Union, claiming the Eurozone is dumping its excess pork into China at unfairly low prices.
Bogged down by stiff new U.S. tariffs, Canada’s economy contracted by 1.6 percent in this year’s second quarter, according to the government’s Statistics Canada agency.
Last May, Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz came to office with a plan to slash red tape, liberate the country’s economy, and fuel it with a €500-billion plan to revitalize the nation’s tattered infrastructure and spend at least that much on national defense.
In a virtual monthly meeting that lasted only 11 minutes, the eight principal members of OPEC+ agreed to return 137,000 barrels of oil a day to the world market, beginning 1 October.
After languishing for the first half of this year, China’s stock market has come roaring back in July and August.
Major AI developers including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Perplexity have introduced AI agents that will shop for you, present a custom-tailored array of products suited to your taste, and complete your orders for any items you select.
The economies of the 20 nations sharing the euro currency grew a collective 0.1 percent in this year’s second quarter, a dramatic downshift from the 0.6 percent posted for this year’s first three months.