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A closed conference offered a rare insight last week into the interface between the state and the defense export industry. Top defense official at the event: 'We should have defended NSO rather than caving to the Americans'

Telephone conversations led to a clear understanding that it is useless to call Minsk.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Angela Merkel has long had her admirers in the Anglophone media. In November 2015 the Economist called her “the indispensable European.” A month later the Financial Times named her its “person of the year.” Time magazine proclaimed her “chancellor of the free world.

Als Schülerin war Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel im Russisch-Unterricht fleißig. Ihre frühere Lehrerin erzählt, dass sie auch nie widersprochen habe. Ein fröhliches Kind sei sie allerdings nicht gewesen.

2/7/2021 3:26:28 PM GMT Sometimes officials call for the foreign exchange market to reflect fundamentals as if they can do anything but.  As businesses and investors, we are more interested in which fundamentals are driving prices than some academic debate over what fundamental considerations  ought participants emphasize.   Data from Q4 may be dated and may not move anyones needle, outside some economists and bookkeepers.  That includes the eurozone industrial production figures due ou...