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Russia Counting the Cost of Adventure in Ukraine
At the time of writing, events in the Ukraine had taken a rather dramatic turn. Russia had sent a 270 vehicle "aid" convoy to the Ukraine claiming that...
Huge Obstacles in $400 Billion Russia China Gas Deal
With its economy flat lining and being held up by oil and gas exports, Russia desperately needs to increase the scale of those exports. On the face of...
ECB’s negative rates hammer savers but will it make banks lend?
What we have seen post the 2008 global financial crash, as the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England and the ECB have sought to...
New, More Transparent, Contracts To End Africa’s ‘Resource Curse’?
Contrary to logic, resource-rich countries in Africa have tend to experience less economic growth in the long run than those deprived of natural riches. To reverse this trend,...
Will Turkey Ever Join The EU?
The EU – whose most powerful members manifestly do not want to extend EU membership to Turkey – is once again going through the ritual of reconsidering the country's...
Is The US Responsible For China’s Military Build-Up?
The scale of China’s military build-up has raised flags among Western alarmists. Yet the focus of the military spending appears to be oriented more towards defending China's periphery,...
How The UK Government ‘Secretly’ Influenced Its Citizens’ Behaviours
Can governments influence the decisions and actions of their citizens without the public’s conscious knowledge? Since 2010, the U.K. government has had a taskforce, nicknamed the “Nudge Unit”,...
US Labour Crisis: Where Have All The Good Jobs Gone?
While the United States had added more jobs in recent months than economists had been expecting, several studies suggest that the U.S. labour market has lost at least...
EU Steps Up Battle Against Money Laundering
The global financial crisis has brought a huge windfall for organised crime networks. Banks have profited handsomely from terrorists and drug lords, channelling billions of dollars through the U.S....
Fighting Climate Change – Is The EU Cap-And-Trade Model On Verge Of Failure?
Eager to contain the spike in CO2 emissions, the European Union in 2005 launched an emissions trading scheme which has since been copied by a number of countries,...