Last week, as I was perusing the typical dross one finds on Twitter, a story from the Wall Street Journal

Weeks are now an eternity in American politics, shaped by rapid-fire newscycles reacting to the latest stupid story. We are

As skeptics and supporters of the current sanctions regime on the Russian economy continue to speak at cross-purposes, selectively choosing

A combination of the Easter weekend, a busy week, and now coming down with COVID has delayed this post far

As reports emerge of an increasingly likely withdrawal from Kherson – the costs of an escalating Russian campaign to wreck Ukraine's energy and heating infrastructure as winter comes mount – the correlation of economic and political forces within Russia are worsening.

The last few days have led to some major whiplash among commodity market watchers, armchair geopolitical strategists, politics fiends, and

The problem with the current emerging attempt at neoliberal totalitarianism in conditions that preclude the effective recycling of a large trade surplus is that eventually you run out of someone else's money.

In a turn of events that rather surprised me, I'm now in the process of signing a contract to write