Photo: Carlos Jasso/Reuters on france24.comRicardo Pascoe PierceWhile in Gaza, the death toll exceeds 20,000, in Mexico, the death toll in 2023 is approaching 30,000. President Lopez Obrador has diplomatically called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas group...
Photo: Felipe Parucker on PexelsJuan VilloroEspionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a...
Image: Petrovv on iStockAntonio NavalónIn the blink of an eye - which for some seemed too little for what was intended to be achieved, and for others, the wait seemed eternal - we have reached the last year of...
https://youtu.be/-nUs_ppctB4?si=TOvet65GJGWNWG77Jamie Dimon’s leadership of JPMorgan Chase has often brought a sense of stability to roiling financial markets. But when he looks at the conflicts in Gaza ( which he considers the highest and most important thing for the Western...
Photo: Ehud Neuhaus on UnsplashPercentage of World DebtGraph: on visualcapitalist.comGovernment Debt by Country in Advanced EconomiesGraph: on visualcapitalist.comGross public sector debt as a proportion of GDPGraph: on ourworldindata.orgExternal debt as a share of GNI, 2021Graph: on ourworldindata.orgDeveloping Countries Receiving the Most...
Photo: Moein Moradi on PexelsLuis Rubio"How can a country retain viability when its structures are focused on other purposes? It is worse when the objective is expressly preserving poverty, not development."Plying the compass has not been the strong suit...
Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images on observer.comAntonio NavalónAmid so many things happening around the world, one of the new facts that characterize the times we live in is how the rich are, how they behave, what their curiosities and...