Ceasefire in Name, Crisis in Reality
The war has entered that familiar and dangerous phase in which everyone claims to want peace, while acting as if escalation remains the more useful...
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The Day the Market Stops Believing
There are warnings that belong to the realm of theory, and others that carry the quiet weight of experience. When Henry Paulson speaks about a...
Ceasefire on Borrowed Time
The war has not ended. It has merely paused, briefly, uneasily, under the sort of arrangement that looks like diplomacy from a distance and like...
China’s Calm Front, Fragile Core
China today presents itself as the one major power still capable of looking composed in a world that seems determined to lose its balance. That,...
Russia-China, the Axis of Convenience Tightens
As war drags on in the Middle East and the American position grows more erratic by the day, Beijing and Moscow are doing what they...
The Fed’s New Fear: Inflation Has Not Finished Its Work
At first glance, the Federal Reserve still looks suspended in familiar ambiguity: waiting, watching, refusing to move too quickly. But the minutes of its March...
Ceasefire, Yes. Control, No.
Washington would like the world to believe that the worst is over. The reality is less comforting. A fragile pause has been announced, diplomats are...
Middle-East: Ceasefire, Peace, or a Joke?
What has been announced is not peace. It is a pause. After six weeks of war, thousands of deaths, a global energy shock and repeated...
Held Rates, Rising Risks
The bond market has stopped dreaming of rescue. A few weeks ago, investors were still clinging to the idea that the Federal Reserve would ride...