Yellen In Kyiv
A week ago, Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Joe Biden to Ukraine. A day later, Sergei Lavrov welcomed
A week ago, Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Joe Biden to Ukraine. A day later, Sergei Lavrov welcomed
“Providing material support to Russia or assistance with any kind of systemic sanctions evasion would
“They were the ones who started the war,” Vladimir Putin said Tuesday, during a marathon
On Sunday evening, the White House’s public schedule for Joe Biden suggested he’d be in
48 hours prior to the convening of the Munich Security Conference, I offered a gentle
A “disgusting crime.” That’s what Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov called the “unsolved” mystery
Simmering superpower tensions were on display this week, casting doubt on the notion that Washington
“This is not war,” Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram over the weekend. “It’s terror. It’s
Volodymyr Zelensky was in Washington on Wednesday. Dmitri Medvedev was in Beijing. 10 months on
Concerns around the rapid abandonment of strict pandemic control measures in China filled a news
Let’s start with a simple, and, I think, uncontroversial observation: Russia has no incentive to
In what amounts to little more than pre-midterm posturing, Joe Biden continues to float the
It was Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candlestick! The Kremlin says Moscow knows
26 months ago, almost to the day, the financial pages were awash with news of
Fund managers have virtually never been this bullish on long-term bonds. Or at least not
Bad news. More of it. Consumer inflation expectations in the key University of Michigan survey
News flow has turned almost uniformly foreboding, which I suppose could be a precursor to
Wars, wars everywhere. Lost in the macabre daily news flow out of Ukraine Monday was
There’s most assuredly a tie in between the naked politicization of the world’s most financialized
Vladimir Putin is facing the very real prospect of defeat in Ukraine. Not just morally
I don’t know when “strategic ambiguity” turned into an unambiguous defense commitment, but the latter
Early Thursday, Joe Biden expressed gratitude to rail workers for striking… an eleventh hour deal
The world is six months into the war in Ukraine. Or eight years, or 239
It’d be a shame if oil prices fell too much. OPEC+ on Monday agreed to
A fixture of the pandemic-era, wartime inflation debate is the (largely self-evident) contention that central
Market participants — those not on vacation, anyway — have busied themselves recently obsessing over
US inflation moderated in July, handing relief to policymakers, even as households remained beset by
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