After the rapid collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank earlier this month, along with Credit Suisse's untimely demise last week, regulators and business leaders have made it a point to publicly assure consumers that banks are safe.
Another week of banking turmoil did not halt the fight against inflation for the central banks that were scheduled to make monetary policy decisions this week.
In response to questions he received during a press conference on Monday about Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin cementing a "new era" in strategic partnership between China and Russia...
Ukraine is a pawn for militarists intent on degrading Russia and ultimately China in a self-defeating quest to ensure U.S. global hegemony. The end of this war, like most proxy wars, will be ugly.
US-funded biological research laboratories are continuing to operate in Ukraine in spite of official statements indicating that they had been "deactivated," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a Friday report on Washington's international path
"Balkanization is the fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states, which may be hostile or uncooperative with one another." (Wikipedia)