The Globalist

Kleptocrats and Oligarchs Beware!

U.S. political campaigns are one vast, sprawling political slush fund, designed to create a money-based web of post-election dependencies that is vast and largely impenetrable.

Goldman Sachs has to deal with unprecedented punishment for bribery.

The failure of multilateral strategic decision-making in these COVID times has been led by the Trump Administration and its bizarre attacks on international institutions.

A personal perspective from an American Jew at a truly momentous time in U.S. history.

Two very different political clocks are ticking on the calendars of public prosecutors that could influence the 2020 US election. One has Republicans worried, the other the Democrats.

The Art of Undermining, or: How easily U.S. President Donald Trump gets away with corruption.

Corruption is bad today, but bound to get worse. Governments’ response to the COVID 19 pandemic amplifies the opportunities for abuse.

Argentina has defaulted on its debts, again. Will the IMF and investors be merciful?

The day when Fed Chairman Jerome Powell rode in to rescue financial markets to prevent their complete freezing up could have entered our history books as another global mega-crash.