The GDP numbers for Q2 were released this week, and they indicated a year-on-year increase of 6.3% compared to the awful quarter in the middle of the Covid disaster last year. The likelihood... Read more

Alibaba’s Ant Financial, after being in the doghouse for nearly thrree years, was fined a sum of nearly $1 billion dollars related to its freewheeling approach to personal finance follo... Read more

The events in Russia over the past week have been watched most closely in China, and with just as much puzzlement as anywhere else in the world. Russia is just another world, and Western log... Read more

There is nothing absolutely categorical, but the sum of the information and atmospherics which we have available to us suggests the economy is really not doing well at all, and that at least... Read more

There are things happening in the world of finance which are worth watching, all related to the changing shape of the global system with China moving further and further into its own indepen... Read more