World & Politics
Clean Energy for Dirty Money: Former Minister for the Environment of Italy Is Suspected of Corruption - 08/10/2015
On Sunday, Italian police and prosecutors have reported the beginning of a formal investigation against the former Minister for the Environment Corrado Clini. Investigators believe that he profited from the allocation of public funds earmarked for the development of green energy in China. As reported on Sunday, representatives of the Italian police and prosecutors, followed by Italian and...
The government of China is buying up billions of shares - 08/06/2015
Chinese state funds bought up shares in the amount of about $ 144 billion from the local stock market. This is about half of the funds allocated by the authorities to support the market, that has experienced several landslides over the past two months. Today it became known that in the past two months, the Chinese government has spent $ 144 billion on the purchase of shares from the stock market...
Turkey and China: Two Rising Powers - 08/05/2015
The program of the visit of a large group, led by President Erdogan, covers China, Indonesia, Pakistan. Each of the stops during this tour is important, yet one in China is in the limelight of attention. Turkey and China are two dissimilar countries. We are talking about a wide range of differences in political, social and cultural points of view. In addition, the views of China and Turkey on...
Puerto Rico is Caught in Default - 08/04/2015
Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico was not able to pay part of the payments on the debt to the creditors. Thus, the country found itself in a state of default. Earlier, authorities reported there is no assets to meet the obligations. General government debt is in excess of $ 70 billion - Due to the lack of funds allocated for the current fiscal year, payments were not made in full...
US Presidential Race: Who is Hiding Behing Their Backs? - 08/04/2015
There’s more than a year before the presidential elections in the United States starts, but the campaign is, in fact, has already been launched. Politicians have announced their participation in the race, making pre-election statements, including foreign policy. Let us try to figure out who advises candidates for the presidency of the United States, and what kind of advice these people can give....
Online Treason in Germany - 07/31/2015
There is a storm of indignation on the media and the Internet. The public prosecutor of the Federal Republic of Germany has launched an investigation against Netzpolitik.org journalists on charges of divulging state secrets. And immediately suspended. On Friday, July 31, the Attorney General of the Federal Republic of Germany Harald Range said that an independent commission of experts should...
Beijing to Host Winter Olympic - 07/31/2015
Beijing will host the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2022. The choice of venue of the competition took place at the 128th Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Kuala Lumpur. This was reported on the organization's website. Alma-Ata also claimed the right to host the Olympics 2022. 44 members of the IOC voted for the capital of China's, whilst only 40 were for the Kazakh...
10 Potential Threats to the World's Welfare - 07/31/2015
Jeremy Grantham is a British investor, co-founder and chief investment strategist at Grantham Mayo van Otterloo, a Boston asset management firm. In his latest quarterly letter to clients, he compiled a list of 10 factors, which, as he writes, "are problems: potential threats to our well-being." It's quite common for Grantham, who recently warned that the Fed is going to inflate a new bubble, as...
Migration: Who is Eager to Get in Albion? - 07/30/2015
About 1.5 thousand illegal migrants on Wednesday night again tried to get from France to the UK via the Eurotunnel under the English Channel, one worker was killed, reported the French newspaper Monde. - Our team found the body this (Wednesday) morning, firefighters confirmed the death of the person, - the newspaper quotes words of the representative of Eurotunnel group. According to the...
John Kerry heads out to brief allies on Iran and ISIS - 07/30/2015
John Kerry in a nation hoping tour to brief allies on the Iranian-nuclear deal as well as create a strategy for battling ISIS militants. John Kerry, the U.S. Secretary of State, will be travelling to the Gulf and Egypt next week in order to brief their leadership on the ongoing nuclear deal with Iran. The fight against the horde of Islamic militants is also on the agenda. After this, he is...