Category: Economy

Where Inflation Is Highest And Lowest Around The World High inflation rates can hurt any country’s economy and point to underlying problems in economic policy. Currently, Iran, Turkey and Nigeria are three countries where high inflation rates are putting a strain on citizens and businesses, with effects ranging from exorbitant food prices, rising rents and falling …

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China Threatens France For Giving Political Asylum To Wife Of Jailed Ex-Interpol Chief Chinese officials have threatened to cease all police cooperation with France for giving political asylum to the wife of ex-Interpol chief Meng Hongwei, according to AFP.  <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> “There hasn’t been any official request to suspend the cooperation but an informal …

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In Stunning Upset, Germany's Far-Right AfD Set To Defeat Merkel's CDU In The Country's East In a stunning development for German politics, Germany’s anti-immigrant, nationalist party Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has taken the lead in the east of the country ahead of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), just a month before regional elections …

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The Citadels Of America's Elites: Fractured And At Odds With Each Other Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Something is ‘up’. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> When two Financial Times columnists – pillars of the western Establishment – raise a warning flag, we must take note: Martin Wolf was first off, with …

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The Rise Of The American Gestapo Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.” – Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties Despite the finger-pointing …

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Russians Are Increasingly Likely To Protest Last weekend, Moscow police arrested around 1,400 protestors, the largest gathering in a decade, after people met to contest the dubious circumstances surrounding city-wide elections. Nearly 150 people remain in custody, according to OVD-Info. Alexi Navalny, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, was arrested Wednesday for inciting anti-government protests. …

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Many Europeans Can't Afford A Vacation In major cities across Europe, particularly in Spain and France, a major exodus occurs in August. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> In Madrid, for example, traffic becomes quieter, restaurants close and offices lie empty as locals flock to the coast to escape the stifling heat. These holiday migrations, as …

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Drug-Resistant Superbug Spreading Throughout European Hospitals Antibiotic-resistant superbugs have been spreading in European hospitals, according to the BBC, citing a recent study.  <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> The spread of Klebsiella pneumoniae is “extremely concerning” according to reserarchers with the Sanger Institute, who warn that other bacteria could become similarly resistant to “last resort” drugs known as carbapenems ‘because of …

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The World Is Not Enough Earth Overshoot Day came on July 29 this year. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, this is only the second time the day, which marks the time at which humanity has used up its allotment of natural planetary resources for the year, occurred in the month of July. …

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"Unprecedented" Arctic Wildfires Visible From Space As 'Global Cooling' Looms Numerous wildfires have been ravaging the Arctic for weeks following the hottest June ever recorded on Earth. Now, the fires are so huge and intense, the smoke can literally be seen from space. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> As RT reports, satellite images show more …

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