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NATO Squabbles

US Threatens to Impose 25% Tariff on British Goods Over Tech Firms Tax

Always nice to see NATO at each other's throats, especially when it can't be written off as due to Trump alone

RT 30 Mar 21 368 2

Northern Sea Route Still at Only 0.1% of Suez Traffic, the Growth Will Be Astronomical

Humble beginnings but a lot less humble than they were just a few years ago

Anatoly Karlin 29 Mar 21 1189 3

Biden Wants a Rival to China’s Belt and Road

Hilarious. Good luck with that.

Anti-Empire 29 Mar 21 938 12

Western Sanctions Help Resolve Russian-Chinese Differences on Joint Wide-Body Airliner

Western economic warfare as the motivation they needed to find compromises

Anastasia Dagaeva 27 Mar 21 1973 12

US: Most Popular Career Choice Now “Professional Stimulus Check Recipient”

The Babylon Bee 21 Mar 21 402 3

Those Pesky Sino-Russians

Moonbase: China and Russia Team Up for the Final Frontier

Though truth be told, they don't even know yet if the cooperation is for an orbital or a surface base

M. K. Bhadrakumar 17 Mar 21 450 6

Ukraine to Nationalize Failing Aircraft Engine Maker to Prevent Chinese Takeover

Only problem: the Chinese already bought it

Roman Olearchyk 15 Mar 21 1266 5

Bubblegeddon

China Worried About Impact of Joe Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Lockdown Bailout

"We are very concerned about the financial markets, particularly the bursting of a foreign financial asset bubble"

Frank Tang 13 Mar 21 717 2

Is This How the Dollar Dies?

"It took from the founding of the United States to 2020 for M1 to get to 4 trillion dollars. And then it took about one year for M1 to go from 4 trillion dollars to 18 trillion dollars."

Michael Snyder 13 Mar 21 965 2

Persia Under SiegeThose Pesky Chinese

China Is Buying Up So Much Sanctioned Iranian Oil It’s Clogging Up Its Ports

Record amounts in 2021, thanks Uncle Sam for the discount

Eleanor Albert 12 Mar 21 509 2

Biden Set to Double Down on Empire’s Chips Embargo Against Chinese Tech Giants

Back in the 1940s it was oil embargo against Japan

James Crabtree 11 Mar 21 522 3

RuSsIa DoEsN'T MaKe AnYtHiNg

Just Three Years Ago This Third World Governor Was Bragging His State’s Economy Was Larger Than Russia’s

But in Russia they don't go to the pre-electric age because it got cold

Marko Marjanović 19 Feb 21 138 18

Florida Resist!

New York Businesses Now Fleeing to Florida

Emily Zanotti 17 Feb 21 59 3

Death Cults

If We Want to Keep Surviving Frigid Winters, We Are Going to Have to Keep Burning Fossil Fuels — and Lots of Them

Of course, it's an open question if the global technocracy and the eco kooks would mind all that much if we froze to death

Robert Bryce 17 Feb 21 59 12

The Bankrupt Empire

US Budget Deficit for January Comes in at 5 Times the Year Prior

Added $736 billion to debt (equal to one half of Russia's entire dollar-denominated economy) in just the first four months of fiscal 2021

Schiff Gold 17 Feb 21 38 1

Those Pesky Sino-Russians

The Future of Sino-Russian Commercial Aviation

"Typically for the USA, it assumed until recently that the Chinese civil aviation market was its own for the asking" for a total of $350 billion over 20 years

Mark Chapman 12 Feb 21 1213 4

Germany Offered Washington to Spend €1 Billion Aiding US LNG Imports If US Ended Sanctions on Nord Stream 2

Justin Huggler 11 Feb 21 410 7

2020 Sees Worst US Goods Deficit Ever, Overall Trade Deficit Worst Since 2008

Who doesn't make anything? Nearly one trillion dollars in imported goods not covered by export goods

Wolf Richter 10 Feb 21 529 2

$1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill Expected to Stimulate National Debt

The Babylon Bee 8 Feb 21 366 2

The Covid Rouge

There Are Still 14 Million Americans on Federal Unemployment, Down Just 2 Million From Shutdown High

And another 5 million on state unemployment

Robert Hughes 6 Feb 21 271 3

Our Benevolent Empire

Huawei Struggles in Smartphone Market as Sanctions Bite, Apple Profits

Life is hard without Taiwanese chips. Down from number one phone supplier to just number give

Global Times 3 Feb 21 633 1

China’s New Digital Currency — A Preemptive Move Against Domestic Big Tech, US Sanctions, and Cryptos

Digital legal tender

TechAltar 2 Feb 21 844 6

The Junior Empire

European Central Bank Takes Bond Market Manipulation to the Next Level

Or how near-bankrupt Italy gets to sell bonds at nearly the same low interest rate as Germany

Schiff Gold 21 Jan 21 458 0

You Can’t “Just Build Your Own Twitter”

To build an alternate social media website with a dissenting moderation policy, you must first invent the universe. Good luck.

Robert Mariani 21 Jan 21 528 3

Those Pesky Sino-Russians

With Russia’s Help, China Becomes Plastics Making Power in Pandemic

The pair combines for a $11 billion plant in the Russian Far East to supply China with petrochemicals for plastics

Kenneth Rapoza 19 Jan 21 944 0

Those Pesky Chinese

With 2.3% Growth, China the Only Major Economy That Expanded in 2020

"The annual growth rate was the lowest since 1976, when the sweeping Cultural Revolution wrecked the economy"

Guo Yingzhe 18 Jan 21 295 0

Financial Fortress Russia

Russia for First Time Holds More Gold Than US Dollars in $583 Billion Reserves

Schiff Gold 14 Jan 21 928 3

Twitter Loses $5 Billion in Stock Valuation After Deplatforming Trump

"Trump, who had about 88 million followers, generated enormous publicity for the platform"

Mark Sullivan 13 Jan 21 735 13

First 350km/h Freight Train the World Rolls Off the Assembly Line in China

Maybe not the most economical, but then, who knows?

CGTN 4 Jan 21 1112 9

Ericsson Warns May Have to Leave Sweden If Stockholm Bans Huawei

Doesn't want the Australian coal treatment

Yash Mishra 4 Jan 21 849 1

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