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China’s Working Age Population Shrunk by 46 Million in a Decade

By 2050 only Korea and Italy of major economies expected to have smaller shares of working population

Mark Kruger 15 Jun 21 633 14

Those Pesky Chinese

China Leads the Race to Nuclear Fusion Power

"The new record has nudged the world ever slightly closer to this elusive, yet highly sought-after clean power source"

Tessa Koumoundouros 12 Jun 21 696 1

US to ‘Counter China,’ ‘Win 21st Century,’ by Printing Up Another $250 Billion It Doesn’t Have

Biden's plan to make US industries 'innovative and productive' is to print currency and give it to them

Dave DeCamp 11 Jun 21 518 4

Those Pesky Sino-Russians

China, Russia Sort Out Differences on Wide Body Airliner

Rumors of CR929's possible demise greatly exaggerated

Frank Chen 11 Jun 21 934 1

Trade War Joys

China Is Paying Less Than 8 Percent of Tariff Costs. Americans Are Paying the Rest

No biggie. Americans can just print more of their Monopoly money and send themselves more checks

Eric Boehm 27 May 21 716 6

Lockdown Lemmings Have Broken Global Shipping

Over a year since the global shutdown logistics are still a total shambles and will remain for most of 2021

Costas Paris 26 May 21 1394 4

Did China Just Sound the Death Knell for Venezuela’s Oil Industry?

China announces a tax hike on sour crude

Felicity Bradstock 26 May 21 1870 6

Can China’s Space Startups Challenge SpaceX?

A brief overview of China’s private space industry

Asianometry 24 May 21 435 2

The Surplus of Printed Dollars Is Driving Price Inflation

US hits highest measured monthly inflation since 1981

Schiff Gold 21 May 21 540 1

Mohammed Bin Salman to Plant 10 Billion Trees in the Desert

MBS aping the Chinese

Sebastian Castelier 21 May 21 728 6

Those Pesky Sino-Russians

You Fools, Rosatom Will Build Nuclear Reactors in China Instead!

Xi, Putin witness launch of biggest China-Russia nuclear energy project worth $3 billion

Insomniac Resurrected 20 May 21 1377 4

The Bankrupt Empire

US National Debt Expected to Approach $89 Trillion By 2029

Dollar starting to look a lot like monopoly money

Mike Patton 20 May 21 428 3

Those Pesky Russians

Global Warming Will Open Up Russia’s Far North to Agriculture Over Next Two Decades — Russian Minister

"Russia’s grain potential could jump from 100-150mn tonnes of grain per year today to 1bn in 2080"

bne IntelliNews 19 May 21 445 15

The Bankrupt Empire

US Forced to Monetize 52% of the $4.7 Trillion in New Debt Since March 2020, Foreigners Took On a Measly 1.7%

The incredibly spiking US national debt has become a "commodity" foreigners no longer have any appetite for

Wolf Richter 19 May 21 795 6

Shenzhen Is Building One Cool Tower

Global Construction Review 15 May 21 1085 5

Australia’s Billion-Dollar Wine Industry Devastated by China Sanctions

People's productive, value-adding businesses failing over conflict brought on by entrenched war-lobby interests

Ben Westcott 7 May 21 1765 25

Those Pesky Chinese

China Funds Africa’s Fossil Fuel Renaissance

The West has stopped financing African development over the green cult. Luckily China has stepped in

Vijay Jayaraj 6 May 21 612 4

Brussels Parasites Vow to Kill China Investment Deal the EU Spent 10 Years Begging For, Over Beijing’s Counter-Sanctions

EU 'parliament' is full of Euro-neocons

Finbarr Bermingham 6 May 21 838 9

The Chip War

After Blowing $84 Billion on Share Buybacks Since 2011 and Now Woefully Behind, Intel Clamors for $50 Billion in Subsidies for US Chip Industry

China doesn't make its own chips — neither does the US

Wolf Richter 6 May 21 629 2

“China Is Not a Cow” — Beijing’s Ambassador to Australia

“China is not a cow. I don’t think anybody should fancy the idea to milk China when she’s in her prime and plot to slaughter it in the end"

Global Construction Review 5 May 21 846 13

Bad News for Australia: China Doesn’t Need Its Coal, Can Maintain Sanctions Indefinitely

For years China had been quietly building up the north-south logistics for its own coal that allow it to eliminate Australia

Alex Turnbull 28 Apr 21 1918 14

Bubblegeddon

Bernie Madoff Could Have Been Fed Chair or Treasury Secretary

The kind of operation the Fed is running he had a lot of experience in

Schiff Gold 27 Apr 21 224 2

Economic War on RussiaFinancial Fortress Russia

Just How Significant Are Empire’s New Sanctions on Russia’s Bonds? Not Very

"Diving into the details it quickly becomes clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fiscal fortress is complete and makes Russia impervious to US sanctions"

Ben Aris 23 Apr 21 898 1

Empire Woes

The US Gov’t Has $6 Trillion in Assets and $130 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities

Not to worry though. That $130 trillion will soon be in monopoly money

Michael Maharrey 20 Apr 21 1094 3

Anglo-Saxon Powers Offer Australia Hurting Under Chinese Sanctions Encouraging Words and Not Much Else

Encouraged to provoke China then hung out to dry — in fact, they're taking up Australia's lost business

James Laurenceson 20 Apr 21 618 2

US Stimmy Checks Support Foreign Manufacturing Economies

"All the Chinese get in exchange for their efforts and resources are dollars, which the US creates for free."

Schiff Gold 15 Apr 21 359 2

The Bankrupt Empire

The US Ran a Budget Deficit of $660 Billion IN JUST THE MONTH OF MARCH — Already $1.7 Trillion in the Hole for First 6 Months of Fiscal 2021

Raised just $267,000,000,000 but spent $927,000,000,000

Schiff Gold 14 Apr 21 365 3

Biden Says “Competing With China” Requires He Takes Out Yet Another $2.3 Trillion in Loans and Distributes It

That's convenient

Jodi Xu Klein 11 Apr 21 513 4

What a Wonderful Time, Every Single Asset Is Rising. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

There used to be a word for the price of everything going up

Charles Hugh Smith 8 Apr 21 550 3

Bank of Canada Printed 430 Billion $CAN to Fund the Gov’t During Lockdown. So Much It Now Holds 40% (!) of all GoC Bonds

Government debt to Bank of Canada quadrupled from 120 billion $CAN to 550 billion in just a year

Wolf Richter 8 Apr 21 497 4

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