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International trade and finance rules have, since their inception, remained skewed in favour of the richest nations. Rick Rowden argues that developing nations want measures to right the asymmetries. Canadian …
Rewriting the rules Read More
The US Supreme Court is at the centre of economic policymaking. Trade policy, immigration enforcement, climate regulation, labour law, and the scope of federal agencies routinely hinge on judicial review. …
Ruling for the rich: Evidence of a pro-wealthy bias on the US Supreme Court Read More
“We don’t need Venezuela’s oil. We have plenty of oil in the United States,” the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, told an NBC interviewer the day after US troops snatched …
Not just oil, the Venezuela invasion is about preserving the petrodollar Read More
Much attention has focused on the famous names implicated in the sex trafficking network surrounding Epstein. But perhaps less has been paid to the very system that – legally and …
The Devil’s Butler: How Jeffrey Epstein Used London to Hide in Plain Sight Read More
Want to bet on whether the U.S. will attack Iran? An increasing number of people are using Polymarket and similar online prediction markets to gamble on war and other geopolitical …
$50 on war in Iran: How geopolitical bets have surged on Polymarket, in five charts Read More
The tectonic ruptures in geopolitics triggered by Donald Trump are reverberating in the currency market, just as they did nine months ago with the trade war. This week, the dollar …
Why Trump isn’t worried about a weaker dollar as markets (and the ECB) grow uneasy Read More
On December 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal to sell natural gas to Egypt in what officials describe as the largest energy export agreement in …
How Epstein Opened Doors to Netanyahu and Ehud Barak Amid Israel’s Offshore Gas Fight Read More
Gold has been a symbol of wealth for thousands of years. While humans have used all sorts of instruments as money (salt, coins, banknotes, or now, algorithms), no asset even …
From safe-haven investment to geostrategic weapon: Who owns the most gold and where are the bars kept? Read More
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft law to determine the extent of losses suffered by Lebanese banks during the country’s financial meltdown in 2019 and provide a mechanism to return …
Lebanese Cabinet approves a draft law to return funds wiped out with the 2019 collapse of banks Read More
The £78bn cumulative tax rises announced by the chancellor in today’s budget risk being wiped out by the £112bn worth of losses the Bank of England due to its active …
Budget tax rises to be overshadowed by Bank of England bond sales and losses Read More