Chinese Shadow Banking System Showing Signs of Strain
Via our Top News Stories Column – From the Zerohedge: Chinese Insurer Warns Of “Mass Defaults, Social Unrest” Due To “Mass Redemption” Run Chinese banks and insurance companies have issued […]
Via our Top News Stories Column – From the Zerohedge: Chinese Insurer Warns Of “Mass Defaults, Social Unrest” Due To “Mass Redemption” Run Chinese banks and insurance companies have issued […]
China’s flagship economic project, the Belt and Road Initiative (aka the New Silk Road), was recently showcased at a global Round-table Summit. In search of new outlets to bolster its slowing […]
Robert Gates, Defense Secretary during both the George W. Bush and Barrack Obama Administrations and Director of the CIA under George H. W. Bush, sits down with Face the Nation […]
The Greek economy is now 9% smaller than when Greece adopted the Euro in 2002…
Via our Top News Stories Column – From the Business Recorder: China will invest $3 Billion in Greek infrastructure, energy and telecommunications It is hard to imagine a greater embodiment […]
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As tensions between the US, China, and North Korea continue to build over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, George Friedman, well known intelligence analyst, forecaster, author, and founder of Stratfor […]
Throughout the day, we post new stories from around the world in our ‘Top News Stories’ column on the left hand side of the The Sounding Line. In order to […]
While developed countries’ economic and carbon efficiency is improving, developing countries are going in the opposite direction.
Outgoing President of France and socialist François Hollande is the least popular French president since the first French election in 1848. Central among the many grievances against Hollande has been […]