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“Argentina posted its worst monthly performance since the April 2020 lockdown, with the monthly activity indicator declining 2.9% month on month.”

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The Trump 2.0 regime seems to be succeeding in its efforts to convince the oil markets that they have cracked open the Hormuz Strait and are escorting an ever-increasing amount of crude oil past the Iranian blockade. For their part, the Iranian claims to have hit almost two dozen ships over the weekend have gone quiet, but the IRGC did send a letter to the American people and threats are being issued. Meanwhile, major meetings took place in New York, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and even London, and kino continued on the Yemeni front.

Now that neoliberal policies are failing to deliver prosperity, their backers are falling back on fear-mongering.

A rumored Iranian electromagnetic weapon raises a larger question: could a conventional EMP weapon disrupt the electronics of a modern warship? Following the engineering problem from electromagnetic coupling and shipboard hardening through satellites, networks, and automated warfare reveals something more consequential: another technological arms race adding complexity and instability to an increasingly interconnected weapons complex.

De-dollarization is simply not happening. Foreign investors are active dollar buyers. .

How the Madrid government leveraged a high-profile eviction crisis to neutralize right-wing momentum after the unprecedented Ceuta border shock

Desperate times call for desperate measures amid Brazil’s burgeoning household debt crisis. 

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Debunking some widely-held, elite-serving beliefs about the function of the Federal bond market.

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Wall Street seems to be noticing that the data center boom rest on a bed of hype while the claims of AI boosters are getting more extreme by the day.

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