Can China Get its Fung Shui Back? It wasn’t that long ago when we though another Asian power was gearing up for a hostile take-over of the US economy. It wasn’t Germany or Great Britain, which in the 1980s were one and two in the “foreigners buying America” category. We…

This is the start of something pointless The overriding question about the expansion of BRICS is how will it affect the price of those pointless boxes from Amazon that show up on door three time a week. Are the market’s looking at a crippling spike in teen throw-away fashion? To…

The mad death of Yevgeny Prigozhin may not help Putin’s grip on power What are we to make of the fiery demise of Wagner big-toe Yevgeny Prigozhin? Probably exactly what you are thinking. Then again, Russia is a mystery wrapped in a riddle that’s been deep-fried in an enigma. It…

A wider Black Sea conflict zone will trigger more than a food crisis The Russian Ministry of Defense is so starved for anything resembling a victory, or at least not a humiliating failure, that they have announced firing on the Palau-flagged Sukru Okan on its way to the Danube River…

And just what, you well may ask, are the Chinese and Russian navies doing off the coast of Alaska? Is this Red Dawn? Are the Chinese and Russians in collaboration to disrupt the global supply of caribou sausage? Or, despite the caterwauling of Alaska’s senators, is nothing really happening? You…

The Food Weapon might work better than the Energy Weapon — Nothing may succeed like success, but solid, undeniable military failure will really set the defense establishment factions on each other like cats in a sack. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s been doing his best to keep said cats in the bag. First there was blaming the FSB —…

As of this post, the dollar has had a good morning. True, is off some 13% since September, and 3% was last week (a hell of a swing for a currency), but the dollar is still strong enough to flood enough Americans to the fashionable parts of Europe places like…

A hex on the marlet’s upbeat mojo? — Jay Powell and the Fed are being as about straight forward as they know how to be: Signaling a hike here, not so much of one there, supposing a pause, and inferring more hikes. …

by Bryan Artiles It’s interesting Sweden is in the news regarding its bid to join one of Earth’s largest and longest-standing military alliances. You can trace the country’s militaristic past to the marauding Vikings, but Sweden hasn’t fought a war in 209 years. They escaped the bloody firestorms of two…