global economy

2 min read 2022-05-17 08:56:22

Sri Lanka Will Run Out of Fuel This Week, New Leader Says

Sri Lanka’s new pm said on Monday that the island nation will run out of fuel as early as Tuesday, according to a report from Reuters. Ranil

2 min read 2022-05-11 06:15:53

In Sri Lanka, the nation’s military has been authorized to use deadly force after a night of unrest left at least eight dead. A worsening economic

4 min read 2022-05-10 18:00:12

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the next tectonic disruption in an exhausting two-year span for the semiconductor industry — which was

4 min read 2022-05-10 18:00:12

The crisis in Ukraine is the next tectonic disruption in an exhausting two-year span for the semiconductor industry — which was already

2 min read 2022-05-07 21:46:40

Global stock markets are expected to continue hemorrhaging money as more heavy selling continues this summer while central banks around the world

2 min read 2022-05-01 02:30:00

In recent days, China has amped up its rhetorical support for Russia in a direct slight to the U.S. and other nations who had hoped that Beijing

1 min read 2022-04-17 03:27:00

Tocqueville 21 · Post-Covid and Green Economics with Charles Dumas Welcome back to the Tocqueville 21 Podcast! As the war in Ukraine and the

1 min read 2022-04-12 02:24:50

World food prices soared past all-time highs in March as the war in Ukraine begins to affect global markets. The Food and Agriculture Organization of

2 min read 2022-04-11 21:36:58

The S&P credit rating agency has said that Russia’s attempts to pay bondholders in rubles, not dollars, amount to defaults on the country’s

6 min read 2022-04-08 08:32:45

By John Richardson AHA! I had another of those light bulb moments yesterday after a dozen or so calls, including one to our excellent ICIS pricing

3 min read 2022-04-01 21:38:52

Try booking, say, a flight from a major European city to Beijing or Tokyo. It’s a struggle to even find one — because Russia has closed its

2 min read 2022-03-29 08:29:44

Since the 1940s, the global monetary system has radically changed three times: "Bretton Woods one" in 1944, when the U.S. dollar was

3 min read 2022-03-24 23:43:57

Meanwhile, NATO has rushed tens of thousands of extra troops to its eastern flank in the wake of the invasion, and leaders launched four new 'battle

2 min read 2022-03-09 18:26:56

The list of tech companies leaving Russia is growing by the day. Here’s the latest. By T.C. Doyle In response to Russia’s illegal and unprovoked

1 min read 2022-03-08 02:27:33

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released its report on worldwide food prices for February and found that prices hit