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G7 “Rejects” Payment in Rubles. Kremlin Says No Rubles, No Gas

Maybe "rejects" is too strong a word...

Anti-Empire 28 Mar 22 1679 8

IT'S ON

Von der Leyen Says Russia’s Demand to Pay in Rubles Is a Bluff That Won’t Work

"We will not allow our sanctions to be circumvented"

Radio Free Europe 25 Mar 22 1723 29

Putin Says Hostile States Will Be Made to Pay for Gas in Rubles

Big if true

Isis Almeida 24 Mar 22 835 14

Biden Officials Talking to Qatar About Supplying Gas to Europe

If they can outbid the East Asians they're welcome to it

Jennifer Jacobs 23 Jan 22 534 4

US, EU Drop Idea of Removing Russia From SWIFT Over Ukraine

Wouldn't be in the Western financial interest.

John Follain 19 Jan 22 835 6

Japanese Think Tank Predicts South Korea’s GDP per Capita Will Surpass Japan’s in 2027

Stagnation is a female dog

Gil Yun-hyung 3 Jan 22 559 3

Why Is Russia Sending Planes Full of Gold to London?

The State Duma wants answers as gold pours out of Russia

Riley Waggaman 30 Dec 21 6493 17

Where Is Russia’s Disastrous Inflation Coming From?

Fiscally hawkish stewards don't rack up 7.5% purchasing power drops

Marko Marjanović 22 Dec 21 1101 3

Nord Stream 2 Won’t Go Live in First Half of 2022, Gas Prices Soar

Gotta hand it to German Greens, when they say they want higher bills for the middle and working classes, they mean it

Matthias Inverardi 17 Dec 21 921 8

After 19 Years of Erdogan Turkey Now Has Breadlines for Government-Baked Bread as Lira Turning Worthless

The upside: has allowed the Sultan to "raise" the minimum wage by 50 percent

Carlotta Gall 16 Dec 21 872 3

Sultan Erdogan Murders the Turkish Lira

Erdogan proclaims sound money is a foreign conspiracy

Anti-Empire 23 Nov 21 708 8

Belarus #1

Lukashenko Says Will Gladly Cut Gas to Europeans If Shenanigans Continue, Putin Lookin’ Kinda Sweaty!

Putin promises the EU he wouldn't dream of doing any of the manly stuff Luka is

Sarah Anne Aarup 17 Nov 21 930 12

Biden Vows to Keep Firing His Giant Money Hose at Everything Until Inflation Is Fixed

"This has so far been his solution to every other problem he has faced"

The Babylon Bee 17 Nov 21 364 2

Joke of the Day

Having Unleashed $10 Trillion of New “Stimulus” Money the Fed Blames Inflation on… “Supply Chains”

Mega-policy decisions to boost demand. Now mega-consequences.

Wolf Richter 4 Nov 21 935 4

Mind Virus-19

Russia Posts Record Layoffs in 2021

Mind-virus leadership will do that

Novosti 21 Oct 21 930 18

The Amazing Explosion of New Businesses Continues as Americans Strike Out on Their Own

Good luck y'all! One good thing to come out of all the destruction since March 2020

Wolf Richter 19 Oct 21 848 5

Sink the New World Order Tax!

DC can't hike without losing revenue so Empire's minions will be forced to hike alongside it

Pat Buchanan 16 Oct 21 455 3

How China Set Itself Up for a Painful Energy Shortage

War on coal blows back

Chen Xuewan 15 Oct 21 954 9

North Korean Provinces See ‘Dramatic’ Decline in Crop Health: Report

Bad news for its self-decribed "food crisis" in the wake of Draconian zero COVID policies

Ethan Jewell 14 Oct 21 444 11

Our Benevolent Empire

US Says Must Slow Down China’s Rate of Innovation

Imagine Beijing saying its project was to slow down America's innovation rate

Amanda Macias 3 Oct 21 1214 20

What’s the Logic of a $1 Trillion Infrastructure Effort During a Historic Labor Shortage?

It's only a trillion

Bruce Wilds 2 Oct 21 448 3

Vietnam Abandons Zero-COVID Fantasy After Record Drop in GDP

Maoism has consequences? Who knew

John Reed 1 Oct 21 798 18

Ukraine up in Arms Because Hungary and Russia Signed a Gas Deal

Ukraine fighting to stay addicted to Russian gas fees

Josephine Joly 30 Sep 21 1186 12

Trade War Joys

US-China Trade War Did Not Bring American Firms Home, Research Finds

“We find little evidence that US multinationals are playing their part in the great power rivalry by patriotically abandoning China.”

Sarah Zheng 24 Sep 21 546 3

Our Benevolent Empire

HILARIOUS: Having Delayed Nord Stream 2, Washington Blames Russia for Europe’s Gas Crunch

Having engineered a bidding war between EU and Asia for its LNG the US accuses Russia of "manipulating" the market

Anti-Empire 23 Sep 21 1499 8

This Is the Labor Market on Which Biden Is Imposing the Injection/PCR Requirement

11.7 million job openings! Twice the pre-mind-virus record

Wolf Richter 12 Sep 21 2733 9

EU’s Radical Net-Zero Pledges Hit Home — With Eye-Watering Energy Bills

Any Russian relief will have to come through Nord Stream 2 -- Russia has signaled it won't increase gas deliveries except through that one pipe when it's approved

Sophie Mellor 11 Sep 21 1088 2

Ireland Stands Its Ground Against 132 Countries Who Gang Up on Its Economy

As the global hegemon seeks to eliminate tax rate competition, Ireland resists this threat to its survival

Dan Sanchez 30 Aug 21 851 10

30% of US Farmland Is Owned by Landlords Who Don’t Farm Themselves

Welcome back to feudal land relations

Nathaniel Lee 23 Aug 21 1093 4

50 Years Ago Nixon ‘Temporarily’ Took the Dollar Off the Gold Standard

And America defaulted on Federal Reserve notes

SchiffGold 18 Aug 21 1234 8

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