The Great Decline Of Britain

The Bond Selloff Isn't Fiscal Armageddon, It's The End Of A Decade Of Financial Repression; Deutsche Bank Authored by Jim Reid, Deutsche Bank global head of macro research, The latest global bond sell-off has revived the idea that markets are fretting over unsustainable public finances. As concerned as I am by this issue in the longer term, the recent bond market weakness at the moment should be seen more as a continuation of the long normalisation from the historic anomaly of the 2010s. That was a decade of financial repression with central...

More Hospitals Are Being Bought By Private Equity; Here's How It's Changing Healthcare... Authored by Lawrence Wilson and Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, There's a greater than one in 10 chance your hospital is owned by someone who's trying to double their money in seven years. If you live in Kentucky, your chances are one in six. In New Mexico, more than one in three. Walk into an emergency room, and there's a 40 percent chance the doctor who stitches you up works for a staffing company owned by private investors,...

Azerbaijan's "Multi-Vector Alignment" Poses A Serious Challenge To Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko, The “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” is poised to become a military-logistics corridor for expanding NATO influence along Russia’s southern periphery and could thus force Putin into the zero-sum dilemma of accepting this or authorizing military action in an attempt to preempt it. Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev recently published an insightful piece asking whether former Soviet Republics are moving “Towards Genuine Multi-Vector Alignment?” This is described as “systematic efforts to create and maintain, insofar as...