Why Russia is not as isolated as the US press would have you believe. The US has wrongfooted some recent dealing with influential countries.
Saturday, December 27, 2025
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/1/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Fog of Financial Sanctions: Visa and Mastercard Shutdown in Russia Whacks Consumers
Russia is scrambling to deal with being shut off Visa and Mastercard.
Are Vaccine Passports About to Go Totally Global?
As the world is transfixed by the escalating war in Ukraine and its economic fallout, big moves concerning vaccine passports are taking place behind closed doors..
New IPCC Report Highlights Urgency of Climate Change Impacts
IPCC: Missing Paris targets would harm human health and biodiversity worldwide, and risk irreversible losses sooner than previously thought.
CODEPINK Says Stop the War in Ukraine. Russian Troops Out. No NATO Expansion
A call for an end to the war in Ukraine….on sensible terms, which means it won’t get done.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/28/2022
~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open Thread ~
New CDC Covid Guidance Caves to Great Barrington, Is Not Science-Based, Finagles the Metrics, and Destroys Masking as a Public Health Measure (Just in Time for the SOTU)
CDC’s “Made for Television” guidance
America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century: The MIC, BARE and OGAM Conquer NATO
Why America is operating abroad to advance the interests of arms dealers, oil & gas, and Big Finance, and not its citizens.
A Very Preliminary Look at the Partial Suspension of Russia’s Access to SWIFT
News on the partial SWIFT cutoff for Russia was fuzzy. Despite being included, its central bank intervened in FX markets this AM. What gives?
Global Financial Risk Factors and Sovereign Risk
An increase in global financial risk causes a large and persistent widening of sovereign spreads, with the spillover effects especially pronounced for speculative-grade sovereign debt
Three Cheers for the Makers of Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes!
Two, three, many Corsi-Rosenthal boxes!
