Author Archives: Nick Corbishley

Javier Milei is desperate to declare Netanyahu an “honorary resident” of Argentina. But if the Israeli prime minister visits the South American country, he could face arrest. 

The Trump administration’s latest escalatory threat comes just days after Rolling Stone reported on a secret drug trafficking cartel operating out of Fort Bragg. 

The ECB insists that cash’s role will be protected once the digital euro goes live. But can its word be trusted?

“The IMF’s maximum credit to Argentina… is projected to reach 1,352% of the country’s quota in 2026. This would be the Fund’s largest exposure in absolute terms in its history.”

It looks like we were right: online age verification is being used as a Trojan horse for the mass rollout of digital identity systems.

“Nobody is going to listen to us ever again when we go around telling others to respect human rights and international law”: the EU’s former chief diplomat, Josep Borrell. 

As Trump’s bumbling threats continue to alienate the US in Latin America, China is increasingly determined to hold its ground in the US’ so-called “backyard”.

The governments of Italy and Spain are doing everything they can to obstruct EU-supported bank mergers from taking place within their borders. 

The Trump administration accuses Mexico of “dumping” tomatoes on the US — something the US would never dream of doing with the agricultural goods it sends to Mexico (sarc).

In the land that gave us Margaret Thatcher’s “there is no alternative” and “there’s no such thing as society”, the provision of even the most basic public services is becoming a problem.

This has little to do with trade — in fact, the US had a $6.8 billion annual trade surplus with Brazil last year — and everything to do with geopolitics.

It’s not just Mexico’s federal government that is calling for economic diversification away from the US but also its biggest business lobby

This time round, it wouldn’t be just US banks that would be heavily exposed to the resulting fallout; so, too, would European lenders. 

The Trump administration’s global charm offensive continues apace.