The question nobody is asking? Pah! The question plenty of people should be asking is that if Putin (labelled Absolute Dictator?) has spent more than 20 years culling out all the liberals and the 'no' men and has done nothing but surround himself ...

Money Markets Stressed as Russia Sanctions Fuel Uncertainty

Ok, NP if that's how it was intended. It's not a cultural thing but more to do with phrase and context. The black-and-white of print does not allow for body language or tone so when there is no lead-in of context or understanding of past nature, ...

Russia has not carried out missile strikes on Kyiv - Russian news agencies

I'll bet the pilots are pretty relieved. url

Russia bans UK planes from entering its airspace - watchdog

Indeed. Russia's economy is less than that of Italy's and can be considered to be akin to a large gas-station. It produces about 10% of the global supply, which is not a position of dominance, even if significant. The military spend is about 4.3 % ...

EU's Michel told Ukraine's Zelenskiy bloc working on third batch of sanctions of Russia after...

Yes, Al Jazeera can give good balanced accounts and I don't want to get into any mud-sling about the ability of the BBC to do likewise as you can always find something to one's liking and disliking, depending on one's bias at the outset. However, I ...

Russia has not carried out missile strikes on Kyiv - Russian news agencies

My ancestors once lived in Westward Ho! Re Russian-Chinese axis: so you think that in the process of trying NOT to become some junior partner to the West (only as that seems to be his fear), Putin would be much happier to be second fiddle to Xi, ...

Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, the West has to try to stop Putin — but how?

After so many weeks now of shouting and entranched or prejudiced posts on Ukraine, with misguided perceptions of 'Us' and 'Them, of 'Win' and 'Lose', this seems as good a time as any to mull over some important questions that drive to the heart of ...

Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, the West has to try to stop Putin — but how?

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UK's PM Johnson: Russian corporations will no longer be able to clear in GBP and USD

I'm not condoning donations from questionable sources but when I first heard this fact being spouted, I took a few moments to check it. Legally, there is a difference between those who may have been born in Russia and since then have become British ...

UK's PM Johnson: Russian corporations will no longer be able to clear in GBP and USD

I'm not arguing against you but there is one unavoidable absolute in that mix. It might not be a desirable factor to have to face up to but, nevertheless, it can't be buried just because it's inappropriate in a PC sense: Demand and Supply. There has ...

Can the UK really improve inequalities without big spending?

Not with you on this argument. So, the USA should kick out FAANG's because they heavily influence the economy of the whole world and USA and even more so in California and account for a huge % of the Dow? The financial industry in the UK at least ...

Can the UK really improve inequalities without big spending?

Mmm, that's quite a miss.

Empire State Manufacturing Survey

That's quite some square peg for the round hole of future GDP growth rate.

US Retail Sales slide by 1.9% in December vs. 0.1% expected decline

One would like to think that any CB's officials would have at least an inkling, never mind economic knowledge or even better, experience, that if energy is up 400%, and there being no reason why that should suddenly diminish in a blink of an eye, ...

ECB's Lane: Rate Rises In 2022 Are Very Improbable

5.0% and yet the most recent significant ECB Official's statement was that they might consider rate rises in 2023. The energy producers have no incentive to be reducing prices anytime soon as with Covid-choked economies only likely to grow in the ...

Euro area annual inflation up to 5.0%

Then we agree on the fact that size isn't the only factor, which wasn't apparent in your earlier post. Yes, trade and all the other factors in your list are important but it doesn't mean one follows the other, that's all. I remain unconvinced about ...

The U.K. Is Being Consumed by Brexit More Than Covid

That's such a narrow-minded approach to the issue and it should be far more nuanced than this chosen proposed black-and-white justification. How does one measure size? Is it population, GDP or status of developed or advanced economies? I suspect ...

The U.K. Is Being Consumed by Brexit More Than Covid

We should already be used to this drag-out of this tiresome theoretical linkage. Why bother with the other annoying potential axes for a chart if 'they' can link just 2 of them on the axes of choice and then link just 2 plotted points on that chosen ...

The U.K. Is Being Consumed by Brexit More Than Covid

If inflation outlook "picks up"? Considering the inflation figures already present, that'll be worrisome and more-than-likely well behind the curve. Surely this is just a bluff-call in the vain hope that it will temper the inflationary forces. Might ...

ECB ready to raise rates, cut stimulus if necessary: Kazaks

Cough, splutter?

US Manufacturing PMI at 58.7%; December 2021 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business