Category: Economy

Are Soaring Food Inflation And Rolling Blackouts The Start Of Next Emerging Market Meltdown? Are Soaring Food Inflation And Rolling Blackouts The Start Of Next Emerging Market Meltdown? A combination of shocks is rippling through emerging market economies and has sparked soaring food and energy inflation, power blackouts, and social unrest. Countries with the weakest …

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China Doubles Russian Coking Coal Imports As Rest Of World Shuns Moscow  China Doubles Russian Coking Coal Imports As Rest Of World Shuns Moscow  It has been nearly two months since Russia invaded Ukraine, with no end in sight as Moscow gears up for ‘phase two’ of the conflict. In response to Russia’s invasion, Western …

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UK Energy Execs Tell MPs That "Fuel Poverty" Will Crush Households Into Debt  UK Energy Execs Tell MPs That “Fuel Poverty” Will Crush Households Into Debt  Living standards in Britain continue a death spiral as a large number of customers will go into debt due to soaring power bills, according to Bloomberg.  European electric utility executives …

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Doctor Google Will See You Now Doctor Google Will See You Now For many people nowadays, the first port of call upon discovering an unusual rash or feeling a worrying pain is not the doctor, but rather Google. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong details below, figures from Eurostat show the countries which are relying the most on medical information …

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Former Swiss "Banker Of The Year" Sentenced To 4 Years For Misusing Company Expenses Former Swiss "Banker Of The Year" Sentenced To 4 Years For Misusing Company Expenses A Swiss banker once dubbed “banker of the year” is now on his way to serving 4 years in prison for millions of dollars of misuse of …

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China Threat Grows As Beijing's 'Tech-Based' Plans Dominate Washington's 'Finances-First' Approach China Threat Grows As Beijing’s ‘Tech-Based’ Plans Dominate Washington’s ‘Finances-First’ Approach Authored by John Mac Ghlionn via The American Conservative (emphasis ours), During the Reagan administration, Michael Sekora helped establish Project Socrates, a classified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency program. The aim of the program was twofold: first, to …

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Mexican Drug Cartels Launched 9,000 Drone Incursions Into US Airspace  Mexican Drug Cartels Launched 9,000 Drone Incursions Into US Airspace  Border security continues to suffer significantly as Mexican drug cartels conducted more than 9,000 drone incursions into US airspace in 2021, Judicial Watch revealed this week.  Judicial Watch spoke with a senior Homeland Security, interviewed federal officials …

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Whitehead: "We, The People" Are The New, Permanent Underclass In America Whitehead: “We, The People” Are The New, Permanent Underclass In America Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rurtherford Institute, “We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed …

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Majority Of Brits Say Johnson Should Go Majority Of Brits Say Johnson Should Go 57 percent of the public believe UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson should resign, according to a snap poll carried out by YouGov on April 12, the day he was found to have broken the law over ‘partygate.’ As Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, Johnson …

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With Le Pen Closing Gap In French Election Polls, Macron Smears Opponent As Russian Sympathizer With Le Pen Closing Gap In French Election Polls, Macron Smears Opponent As Russian Sympathizer As France’s right-wing nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen closes the gap with French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the second round of the country’s presidential …

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