Ukraine war latest: US says Russian missile launches more frequent
[ad_1] The Pentagon said Russia had fired 600 missiles since the start of the invasion, an increase from 500 as of Friday, suggesting an acceleration from the roughly 20 launches a day that were detected at the end of last week. A senior US defence official said Russia had moved 95 per cent of its […]
Ukraine crisis batters Sri Lanka’s tea and tourism recovery strategy
[ad_1] Sri Lanka faces an escalating debt crisis after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wrecked two of its largest tourist markets, with analysts warning that the economic fallout of the conflict has increased the chance of default. The south Asian island has for months struggled with power cuts and shortages as its depleted foreign exchange reserves […]
AG Merrick Garland Outlines Corporate Crime Prosecution Priorities
[ad_1] By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. In a speech last Thursday to the American Bar Association’s Institute on White Collar Crime, Attorney General Merrick Garland outlined Department of Justice (DoJ) corporate criminal enforcement priorities. A close look at […]
Dutch warn against relaxing EU fiscal rules to spur defence spending
[ad_1] The Dutch finance minister has warned against watering down the EU’s borrowing rules by stripping out defence and other strategic investments, saying the bloc needed to keep its eyes on debt sustainability even as it confronts the economic challenges posed by the war in Ukraine. Sigrid Kaag said that the Netherlands was open to […]
European summits with Ukrainian questions on the agenda
[ad_1] This article is an on-site version of our The Week Ahead newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Sunday Hello and welcome to the working week. Once again an anniversary gives us pause for thought. It will be two years ago this Friday since the World Health […]
Transcript: David Kotok – The Big Picture
[ad_1] ?? ?? The transcript from this week’s, MiB: David Kotok on Pandemics & Markets, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including the podcast extras on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, Bloomberg, and Acast. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ; […]
Portfolio Rescue: Risk Tolerance – The Big Picture
[ad_1] Welcome to Portfolio Rescue, the show where we answer your questions about investing and personal finance. On this episode, Ben Carlson is joined by Barry Ritholtz, Chairman/CIO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, host of the Masters in Business podcast, and blogger at The Big Picture. How Should I Invest if I Have a Low Risk […]
Will the Ukraine crisis alter the ECB’s monetary policy stance?
[ad_1] Russian invasion creates a dilemma for the ECB Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, will have her first chance to outline how seriously Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended the outlook for the eurozone economy when she presents new forecasts on Thursday. The ECB is widely expected to postpone any major […]
Links 3/6/2022 | naked capitalism
[ad_1] War and Imagination The Hudson Review The Varieties of Bullshit Peter Ludlow Meeting of Romantic Minds American Scholar How the first ever pop star blazed a trail of innovation BBC Elusive Big-Nosed Blobby Frog Found in Peru TreeHugger Climate change, COVID loom over Alaska’s 50th annual Iditarod Sled Dog Race Reuters #COVID-19 Coronavirus: Beijing […]
Calls Mount to Cancel Student Debt as Biden Weighs Longer Payment Pause
[ad_1] Jerri-Lynn here. Despite polling showing student loan cancellation to be popular, even among those who don’t hold such debt themselves, Biden is unlikely to cancel all student debt outright. At best, we’ll continue to see the extension of measures that kick the can down the road, such as a continued pause on student loan […]
10 Sunday Reads – The Big Picture
[ad_1] My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Ukraine Warcasting Predictions, market accountability, pundit accountability. The first part of this post looks at various markets’ predictions of how the war will go from here (Zvi published something like this a few hours before I could, so this will mostly duplicate his […]
Food crisis looms as Ukrainian wheat shipments grind to halt
[ad_1] At this time of year, Kees Huizinga is normally busy planting wheat, barley and corn on his farm in central Ukraine. But, having lost workers to the frontline, the Dutch national left his grain silos to sound the alarm about the impact of the Russian invasion on global wheat supply. Russia and Ukraine supply […]