SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GETTING BIGGER
Each week, we report instances where the money junky hedge funds, private equity groups and the already big companies swallow...
SPOTLIGHT: CHINA
EUROPEAN COMPANIES CUT BACK OPERATIONS IN CHINA European businesses are having to “reduce, localize, and silo” their work in China...
ONLY IN TURKEY: INFLATION RISES, INTEREST RATES FALL
Despite inflation edging above 80 percent in August, Turkey’s central bank cut its benchmark one-week repo rate last week from...
BANK OF JAPAN INTERVENES TO PROP UP YEN
For the first time since 1998, Japan’s central bank has sold dollars and bought yen to strengthen its currency’s value...
NEW U.K. STIMULUS PLAN POUNDS DOWN POUND
To revive the British economy and snatch it from the brink of recession, newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss’s new...
2023 WILL FEEL LIKE A RECESSION EVEN WITHOUT ONE, IMF CHIEF SAYS
Even if the global economy somehow manages to avoid a recession, in 2023 millions of people around the world will...
DRAGFLATION: WAR, SANCTIONS, RATE HIKES WILL CUT WORLD GROWTH
The world economy will grow by 2.2 percent next year, the 37-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) predicted...
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
Dragflation: Economic growth declining and inflation rising… plus the pressure of interest rate hikes that are drying up the cheap...
HOME PRICES, SALES FALL AS INTEREST RATES RISE
Sales of existing homes slipped 0.4 percent in August from July and fell 19.9 percent below August 2021, making it...
FED RAISES RATE THREE-QUARTERS OF A POINT AS RECESSION LOOMS
The U.S. Federal Reserve added 0.75 percent to its key federal funds interest rate on 21 September, raising it to...
IT’S POLITICS: ONCE PROMINENT PROTESTOR LAMENTS LACK OF AN ANTI WAR MOVEMENT
Remember Medea Benjamin, the Code Pink anti war protester? You wouldn’t know it from the lack of media coverage, but...
IRAN: PROTESTS ESCALATE
Iran has been rocked by deadly protests after the death of Mahsa Amini three days after she was arrested by...
GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL WILL INCLUDE $12 BILLION TO MAKE SURE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN UKRAINE
The U.S. Congress’ stop-gap spending bill being negotiated in Washington to fund the government after Friday’s deadline will include $12...
ECONOMIC SPECIAL: NATURE’S WILD CARD
As the summer of 2022 came to a close, countries in nearly every continent were impacted by historic heat waves...
ITALY’S MELONI WINS BIG IN ELECTIONS, EU ISSUES WARNING
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy, won the country’s election for prime minister and could lead Rome...
KREMLIN INSISTS IT WANTS TO NEGOTIATE FOR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION WITH UKRAINE
The Kremlin, once again, said the war in Ukraine will only end through negotiations, but said Kyiv’s continued refusal to...
PUTIN SENDS STERN WARNING TO THE WEST, VOWS TO KEEP UP FIGHT IN UKRAINE
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday once again brushed off the Ukrainian counteroffensive and issued a wider threat to the...
BLINKEN VOWS TO RAMP UP UKRAINE WAR
Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, said last week that the U.S. will continue its support for Ukraine because...
AMERICAN KIDS ARE MEDICATED MORE THAN EVER
By Dr Joseph Mercola STORY AT-A-GLANCE Children with behavioral and mental health conditions often fall victim to polypharmacy, the use...
WAR-MONGERS IN CONGRESS WANT PENTAGON TO INCREASE WEAPONS TO UKRAINE
You know it’s serious when the Pentagon doesn’t just rubber stamp a Ukrainian weapons request. Members of Congress sent Lloyd...
THE ELITE BLUEPRINT FOR THE FUTURE
“Clean” Energy isn’t clean. The emissions and impacts on the environment of making EVs, wind turbines and solar panels and...
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
TETHER STABLECOIN MUST PROVE ITS BACKING, SAYS COURT Tether must prove it has 1 to 1 dollar reserves or equivalent...
NOMURA IS INVESTING IN FNALITY PAYMENTS BLOCKCHAIN
In a bid to leverage blockchain technology innovations, Asian banking giant Nomura has made several recent moves, including investing in...
MICKEY MOVE OVER: THERE’S A NEW M-WORD AT DISNEY
The metaverse and NFTs will likely figure into the near term future of The Disney Company’s theme parks and entertainment...
CAN INNOVATION OUTPACE GREED, WAR AND CORRUPTION?
Yes, the prognosis continues to look bleaker. The modern story of monetary manipulation by the government via the Fed, marked...
THE THREE-MINUTE BATTERY
Adden Energy, a start-up spun out of Harvard University, reports having created a battery that can be fully charged in...
WHAT’S FOR DINNER? TOMORROW, IT MIGHT BE ALGAE.
The world’s expanding population will need more protein, but that same bunch of new people will be competing for land...
AI PROBABLY WILL BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTROL, RESEARCHERS WARN
A “super-intelligent” artificial intelligence (AI) very likely would become so capable that humans would no longer be able to direct...
LAVROV: U.S. IS ‘ON BRINK’ OF BEING INVOLVED IN UKRAINE CONFLICT
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat, said in an interview with Newsweek magazine that the U.S. is teetering on the brink...
U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER A LIAR? BY HIS WORDS AND DEEDS, WE’RE AT WAR WITH RUSSIA
President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan warned Americans in televised interviews on Sunday’s CBS’s Face the Nation and...
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