by editor | Apr 11, 2019 | Top Page Links
Beware vast Chinese state-owned enterprises bearing the gift of debt. That’s the new rule smaller countries along the route of China’s world-spanning “Belt and Road” initiative are finally learning, as the examples of Pakistan and other early...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
It’s not like politicians mucking with credit ever resulted in disaster before, right? RIGHT? Well anyhoo, it’s happening again, as politicians of all stripes and convictions (or lack thereof) lay siege to central banks with the help of pundits and other...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Sub-saharan Africa’s economic growth rate dipped to 2.3% in 2018, down from an average 3.3% in the previous half-decade, according to a World Bank cited by the Financial Times, but the slowdown won’t last: over the next few years increasing prices for...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Yet another European country is turning its back on fossil fuels – or at least talking a good game about it. Britain hopes to begin reducing its dependence on natural gas in favor of renewable sources, especially wind and solar power, around 2025, according...
by editor | Apr 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Six months ago one of Donald Trump’s signature campaign promises – the renegotiation of the “terrible, awful” North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – looked set to become reality after U.S., Mexican and Canadian trade negotiators...
