“You love cash. But has cash loved you back?” More
What Mexico Can Teach Its Northern Neighbour About Combatting Child Obesity, Diabetes and Other Chronic Health Conditions
“The economic burden… of not intervening in the prevention and reduction of childhood overweight and obesity is up to $1.8 trillion in the case of Mexico.” More
Milei’s Controversial Plan to Turn Argentina into a Money Launderer’s Paradise
“The key is that nobody asks where you got your dollars.”More
Is UK Creating a Perfect Bonanza for Hackers and Nation-State Adversaries With Its “One Login” Digital Governance System?
The government’s cavalier approach to security for its rapidly expanding digital governance and identity systems should be enough to give all UK citizens pause — if only they knew about it!More
US Looks to Escalate Its Economic War Against the World By Taxing Remittance Payments
Paradoxically, this is likely to create more, not less, illegal immigration to the US. More
The Curious Case of the Hostile Takeover Bid by a Bank Facing Criminal Charges
Despite facing prosecution on a number of charges, including widespread corporate espionage, Spain’s BBVA still wants to take over its third biggest rival. The ECB has already given its blessing. More
Mexico’s Exports to US Just Surged to a New Record High Despite, or Largely Because of, Trump’s Tariffs
The world’s largest bilateral trade relationship continues to grow, but it’s a trend that is unlikely to last.More
Despite Last Week’s Nationwide Blackout, Spanish Government Takes Criminalisation of Cash to Whole New Level
Taking money out of the bank becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare. Anyone looking to withdraw more than $3,000 of their own money must notify the State in advance as well as explain the reason(s) why, or face fines. More
Washington Is Once Again Weaponising the IMF to Try to Reclaim Its “Back Yard”
Through its selective lending to struggling economies in Latin America, the IMF is helping Washington, once again, to reassert its strategic influence.More
Suddenly Everything Stopped: Nationwide Blackouts in Spain and Portugal Underscore Extreme Fragility of Our Modern Systems
As the system comes back online and attention turns to the possible cause(s) of one of Western Europe’s largest peacetime blackouts, one thing is clear: without cash, the chaos would have been far worse. More
Nick Corbishley 