Why a strong U.S. dollar is bad for ‘the rest of the world’
The U.S. dollar is the world’s dominant currency and plays a key role in global trade. While that may seem like good news…
Economy
Senate Approves Government Funding Bill After Pre-Holiday Scare
The Senate approved a massive spending bill on Thursday after a late-night immigration standoff threatened to derail progress on the legislation ahead of a…
Short Week and Little Economic Data Has Market and Economists Focused on 2023
A holiday-shortened week and a paucity of new economic data should leave markets and economists with little to digest as 2022 comes to an…
Kazakhstan Becomes New Diplomatic Center between East, West and Asia
Frankfurt, Brussels, London (15/12 – 40). Shortly after being re-elected in Kazakhstan’s presidential snap election on November 20, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a…
Mukhtar Ablyazov Found Guilty of Embezzlement and Money Laundering by US Jury
New York (15 December 2022 – 33). Mukhtar Ablyazov, a Kazakhstan citizen, was found guilty of embezzlement and money laundering in the U.S. Court…
Biden to back African Union spot in G20 at US-Africa summit
The United States is expected to discuss the African Union’s role in the Group of 20 nations at a three-day summit in Washington, DC….
Key Canada-U.S. oil pipeline outage could lead to crude supply shortage in the States
An outage on the largest oil pipeline to the United States from Canada could affect inventories at a key U.S. storage hub and cut crude supplies to two oil-refining centers, analysts and traders said…
Putin says Russia could adopt US preemptive strike concept
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow could adopt what he described as a U.S. concept of using preemptive military strikes, noting it…
Concern as US media hit with wave of layoffs amid rise of disinformation
Awave of layoffs have hit the beleaguered American media industry as several major companies, including CNN, BuzzFeed and Gannett, have laid off hundreds of workers…
Masking could fight the ‘tripledemic’, experts say. Will anyone listen?
Masking can feel like a thing of the past in the US, even in cities such as New York and Los Angeles that…