Every man has his price, and Lavrov wore it on his chest, in Alaska. EU Stubbornness and Russian Hawks Between the stubbornness of the EU and the Russian Hawks, both Putin and Trump find it impossible to force a peace-deal in Ukraine. Problem: Chinese Baltic Intervention too Expensive for Putin
It's About the Debt Observers and critics alike look in shock as, after two wildly outrageous murders in the past week have hardly evoked a word from the Trump administration or any substantive action. Trump - Always Betrays His People Trump routinely stiffed his contractors as a building
Bankruptcy administration proves fraught: assets and destinies in the hands of judges and trustees... some of whom can prove adversarial or susceptible to "influence"... If at all possible, when a company or investment vehicle proves distressed, the creditors seek to work it out, amongst themselves: hence the expression
AI, still in its infancy, already has eaten jobs, especially in software: engineers prove far, far more productive with their LLM's, and LLM's begin to expand into other workflows, such as book-keeping for accountants, which jeopardizes the entire offshore book-keeping industry. More important than AI, though,
Starting April 2, 2025, 401k-owning Americans awoke in terror: the harvest for capital began, in earnest, with the market indices dropping 10% across the board over two days. The crash's cause: tariffs and "trade war" with China. The crash's actual cause: capital flight from