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Kremlinology has always been a very difficult and inexact science. It is not easy to figure out the real aims, the real motivations, the real power balance, formerly in the Soviet Union, and now in Putin’s Russia. Moscow’s interest should be in fixing its economy and in having decent relations with the rest of the world, precisely for that purpose. But Putin is doing exactly the opposite. Does Russia need more territory? It already has more than it can control. Is Ukraine a threat for Russia? Hardly. Ukraine doesn’t want Russian territory, it wants control of its own, and there is (or w...

Should PayPal be worried about your country’s central bank? Bloomberg April 7 | Updated on April 07, 2021 × Authorities in most countries may have no choice except to jump on the digital currencies bandwagon The world of money is about to leap into the great unknown of central bank digital currencies. Will it land in a utopia of universal financial inclusion or crash into a dystopia of instability? Perhaps the experiment will upend banking as we know it, or turn out to be one big damp squib, unable to compete even with an existing private network like PayPal Holdings Inc? Any of these outc...

View: Central banks could issue digital currency, compete directly with PayPal SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 07, 2021, 07:49 AM IST Share Synopsis Technology is enabling monetary authorities to give ordinary people access to a kind of electronic cash they have never had before. Getty Images Central bank electronic cash is being viewed as a Cold War-type space race between superpowers, writes Andy Mukherjee. Related By Andy Mukherjee The world of money is about to leap into the great unknown of central bank digital currencies. Will it land in a utopia of universal financial inclusion or crash i...

"All great powers" want to rule the world, declared Robert Kagan, propagandist for America as imperial power, democratic hegemon, aggressive - Doug Bandow for Antiwar.com Original

Australia’s former top public servant says the government’s communication of policies that have upset China have further inflamed the deteriorating relationship.