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Bloomberg: World leaders – who wins and who loses from Trump’s return

11:00 12.11.2024

Bloomberg: World leaders – who wins and who loses from Trump’s return

Trump’s relationships with world leaders will shape global events, stresses Bloomberg. If there is one thing Donald Trump is clear on, it’s winners and losers. The transactional nature of his first presidency showed how he ranked leaders based on their perceived strengths and weaknesses — and his personal taste. That …

View from the West: How to fix the World – the elements of Global Stability

10:59 12.11.2024

View from the West: How to fix the World – the elements of Global Stability

This article from the European magazine ‘Brussels Signal’, written by an author who works with both the British and the Americans, clearly demonstrates some essential things. First, there are still reasonable analysts in the West who adequately and without a hint of propaganda examine the ongoing global changes. Second, the …

Western fuss over Trump and around Ukraine

10:58 12.11.2024

Western fuss over Trump and around Ukraine

After Trump's election, the West became noticeably nervous and began making drastic moves: Poland’s Tusk to meet EU, UK, NATO leaders on Ukraine after Trump win and Biden allows US military contractors into Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk plans meetings with leaders from the EU, the U.K. and NATO …

FED is under fire: Elon Musk endorses plan to let presidents meddle with Federal Reserve after Trump election win

10:57 12.11.2024

FED is under fire: Elon Musk endorses plan to let presidents meddle with Federal Reserve after Trump election win

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the billionaire backer of newly minted President-elect Donald Trump, endorsed the idea of allowing presidents to intervene on Federal Reserve policy, CNBC reports. In response to a Thursday social media post from Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, which called for the Fed to be under …

View from London: Is Germany’s business model broken?

11:07 11.11.2024

View from London: Is Germany’s business model broken?

In a 30-plus-year career in corporate restructuring, consultant Andreas Rüter has seen it all: the dotcom bust, September 11, the global financial meltdown, the euro crisis, Covid-19. But what’s happening right now in corporate Germany is “unprecedented” and “of a completely different order of magnitude”, says Rüter, the country head …

Francis Fukuyama: What Trump means for American foreign policy?

11:06 11.11.2024

Francis Fukuyama: What Trump means for American foreign policy?

The blowout victory of Donald Trump and the Republican party on Tuesday night will lead to major changes in important policy areas, from immigration to Ukraine. But the significance of the election extends way beyond these specific issues, and represents a decisive rejection by American voters of liberalism and the …

‘Los Angeles Times’: Room at the top for Donald Trump

11:04 11.11.2024

‘Los Angeles Times’: Room at the top for Donald Trump

The real estate mogul and onetime reality TV star captured a second term as president of the United States early Wednesday morning — nearly a decade after his now iconic entrance on the nation’s political stage. His candidacy again surmounted innumerable obstacles and defied much of a political establishment that …

British life-style: How university education became infantilised

11:03 11.11.2024

British life-style: How university education became infantilised

Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it’s precisely because I loved the job I was paid to do, and because I believe so firmly in preserving the excellence of higher education, in Britain and beyond, …

Ukrainians fear Trump return could threaten their future

9:48 10.11.2024

Ukrainians fear Trump return could threaten their future

Many Ukrainians fear Trump’s return to the White House, with concerns he’d cut support and pressure NATO allies. Could a Trump presidency leave Eastern Europe vulnerable? ‘Financial Times’ reported that many in the Ukrainian army are afraid that Donald Trump’s presidency is fraught with the loss of Donbass for Kyiv. …

View from London: “I have never met a responsible soldier on either side of the Atlantic who supposed that Ukraine could achieve an absolute win”

9:47 10.11.2024

View from London: “I have never met a responsible soldier on either side of the Atlantic who supposed that Ukraine could achieve an absolute win”

Most European governments, including our own, hate and fear Donald Trump. Yet though nobody would say so, even behind the arras, they see one big reason to welcome him into the White House. He will get them off the hook in Ukraine and take most of the blame for its …

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