German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Lithuania last week to celebrate the deployment of his forces inside the country, stating that the brigade represents Berlin’s commitment to securing the Baltic states because their security “is also our security.”
As we had forecast, a Top Trend that would be dealt this year is a Wild Card. And week after week, month after month it is a socioeconomic and geopolitical game changer.
CORPORATE DEBT RISK: This IS The Silent Collapse. And Its Building Beneath the Market/Economy.
On 16 May, Moody’s Ratings became the last of the three major credit rating agencies to lower its estimate of the U.S. government’s creditworthiness.
Partisan legacy media has an expansive definition of “AI safety” that is often used in articles to advocate for “woke” and “politically correct AI” under the guise of safety, in the same breath that it warns that AI might be doing things like secretly replicating itself, and lying to researchers about its activities.
Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy, told officials last week that the administration will not force Israel to stop its genocide in Gaza, despite the worsening humanitarian conditions inside the enclave.
The U.S. is losing ground to other peer countries in life expectancy over the past decade, and researchers blame the prevalence of chronic disease for the lack of momentum.
Once again, another day of Donald Trump in the White House, and another day of him playing The Trump Card. And with each play of the Trump Card, it is another day of the world wondering what will be the next Wild Card that will be dealt.
Even under current conditions, the dollar is mathematically on track to hit zero within 32 years (by ~2057)… And that’s assuming the devaluation rate stays at 9.5 percent per year. But it won’t.
The U.S. has temporarily reduced its tariffs on Chinese imports from 145 percent to 30 percent and China has slashed its import fees on U.S. goods from 125 percent to 10 percent.