According to the World Health Organization, air pollution is responsible for 7 million deaths annually, and could cost the global economy between $18–25 trillion by 2060 in annual welfare costs, or roughly 4–6% of world GDP.
And with predictions that 7 in 10 people will...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk tweeted the following on Saturday: “To all the initiators and patrons of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet.” This followed the...
The Washington Post (WaPo) reported on Saturday that Qatar was secretly mediating a partial Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire before Kiev’s sneak attack against Kursk, which would have seen both sides agree not to target each other’s energy infrastructure. The Kremlin hadn’t...
By John Kingston of FreightWaves
With the benchmark diesel price used for most fuel surcharges down for in a row, diesel consumers should be reveling in the fact that market trends appear to have completely thrown out concerns about the Middle...
The Washington Post (WaPo) cited unnamed Indian and US sources to report that “India pressed U.S. to go easy on Bangladeshi leader before her ouster, officials say”, which confirms what was analyzed a year ago about how “India’s Reported...
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that the US didn’t know about Ukraine’s plans to invade Russia’s Kursk Region, but that’s unbelievable since there’s no way that its intelligence services didn’t even catch a hint of it, not...
Authored by Alan Lash via The Brownstone Institute,
Prepare for total control of your economic life. That is the message from Brownstone Fellow Aaron Day at his 4-hour workshop in San Jose, California last Saturday, May 11th.
Day has written the excellent book The Final...
Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev shared an ambitious regionalization vision in his de facto manifesto earlier this month titled “The Renaissance of Central Asia: Towards Sustainable Development and Prosperity”. He began by emphasizing the five countries’ roles in the Great...
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency.
We can summarize the changes in our economy over the past two generations with one...
The report late last month that Ukraine finally received some of its long-awaited F-16s, at least one of which was then spotted flying over Odessa, was followed earlier this week by two related developments. Senator Lindsey Graham revealed during...
