In the ping-pong match above about trade, I repeat what I've said before. Russia could be a fabulous country if ONLY they got rid of the form of leadership and institutions which hold it back. What has Russia got to worry about the 'West'? Why do ...

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

Maybe. I was only making the point that just because someone writes comments, it's not an absolute that they can't be traders and are proposed as being 'losers'. It's unlikely to be an exclusive club and there are many, many possibilities. An ...

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

Oh, the irony: Kuroda should look to who has caused the volatility in the first place. Anyone know the best address to send him a mirror? A great move it was too and still going strong.

Japanese Finance Ministry Official: Excess FX Volatility Is Undesirable, Recent Moves Are...

Just before you feel too smug with that assertion, have you excluded the possibility of someone being able to write an algorithm that trades exclusively and automatically, allowing time for free thought?

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

This repartee is going nowhere. I am not willing to play a part in a slanging-match. If you want to insist your phallis is bigger than mine, be my guest. I know what independent debate, based on hard evidence, looks, sounds and feels like. As I ...

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

Whatever! As I stated earlier you're fascinated by making tenuous links. I don't worship the USA. Maybe the point about my being an independent-thinker running my own business in a liberal, genuine capitalistic democracy passed you by. As to be ...

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

Boy-oh-boy! There we go: as if it were needed, more evidence for my original rhetorical question. Puppet, who's your master? This is the end of this chain or replies.

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

No, I don't. Enlighten me. Before you waste time and effort trying your best to make a tenuous link that, as a result of my status as an the owner of a non-political business in a liberal, capitalistic democracy, directly, indirectly or even ...

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

Ah, of course, the favourite call for Nationalists of Autocracies: it's all always primarily the fault of the USA and when it's not, make a link, however tenuous. Puppet, who's your master?

Russia Says Gas Will Stay Cut for Poland and Bulgaria Until Payments Made in Rubles

The text on which I commented before but here again also, your view seems to be vary black-and white with no nuance. If someone says that force should not be appeased means 'war' and 'war-mongering'? No-sir-ee. The Cold War was an example of ...

Russia warns Japan that it will retaliate if the scale of the US-Japanese naval exercises...

Whilst I applaud the perspective of that idealism of minding one's own business and no one else's, world order gets disrupted if the biggest influencer leaves the theatre. Putler acted because he was certain he could get away with it once again; the ...

Russia warns Japan that it will retaliate if the scale of the US-Japanese naval exercises...

Your profile states you to be based in Romania, where more than 500,000 Ukrainian refugees have fled, so I know you know there is a war ongoing, charged by a corrupt, unreliable, autocratic hegemony, that has usurped the wealth from the actual ...

Retail sales, Great Britain: March 2022

Be careful not to mix political wishful-thinking into the pot when rational analysis of future scope and strategy are better indicators of the future.

Retail sales, Great Britain: March 2022

Here we go with a significant indicator of a recession already in gear due to energy-shackled inflation, as if an indicator was needed. For now GBP will be hammered but other economies will follow suit so relativity of severity will come to pass. ...

Retail sales, Great Britain: March 2022

There is a reason why genuine peace talks can't gain traction whilst the battle theatre(s) and war status is still changing daily and nowhere near exhaustion. Russia still believes that it can make unreasonable demands on the basis of fear of ...

Kremlin: Ball is in Ukraine's court on peace talks after Russian side passed a document to them

Lavrov almost sounds reasonable there, if it wasn't for the fact that NO Russian weapons should be being used in Ukraine. End of.

Lavrov: Russia will only use conventional weapons in Ukraine - Tass

Running on from that theme, I too believe that the current form of regulated-capitalism is off-kilter. I'd like to see some form of restrictions on the pay of boards and senior management in relation to their employees (the 20-fold multiple between ...

Corporations Could Pay Nearly 14% More Under Global Tax Deal, IMF Says

There'll be a great newly-prioritised niche for some very highly paid accountants in a Tax Strategy department.

Corporations Could Pay Nearly 14% More Under Global Tax Deal, IMF Says

Putler: define 'well' please (Not the Oil-type)?

Putin says Russia's finance system is operating well - IFX

Here's a 'thinking-out-loud' question for people, which I have been considering for some time and surprising even myself that I should question a major tenet (N.B. I am an advocate of CB's raising interest rates much higher to quell inflation and am ...

Consumer Price Index - March 2022