Representatives from the 29 countries that form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will gather for a summit this month in Brussels. The meeting takes place amid increased tensions between the United States and its NATO allies. Topics likely to be addressed include relations with Russia, joint military operations and […] Read more »
As The British Pound Tumbled After The Brexit Vote, Some Hedge Funds Made Millions
While Britain’s market reeled from the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, hedge funds used secret polling data to make millions off the collapse of the pound. NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bloomberg reporter Cam Simpson about what happened. NPR Read more »
Brexit’s Big Short: How Pollsters Helped Hedge Funds Beat the Crash
At 10 p.m. on June 23, 2016, Sky News projected the words “IN OR OUT” across the top of a London building as an orchestral score ratcheted up the tension. “In or out—it is too late to change your mind,” declared Adam Boulton, the veteran anchor, seated in a makeshift […] Read more »
Counting the days till Trumpism ends? You’ll run out of fingers.
… When citizens rise up against a system they believe is broken, when voters conclude that they’ve been conned or taken for granted, they are generally not dissuaded by their leaders’ personal peccadilloes, nor are they impressed by investigations that reveal misdeeds by their populist flag-bearers. President Trump remains as […] Read more »
G6 Plus One Mindset Existed Before Summit
The angry tweets and comments from President Donald Trump and his advisers after the recent G7 meeting in Quebec underscore the often-confrontational approach the Trump administration has taken toward the nation’s major allies — the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada. But before the tweets and punditry, what […] Read more »
5 facts about how the U.S. and its allies see North Korea
Eyes turn to Singapore this week as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet for the first time. While previous communication between the two leaders was marked by hostility, the meeting came about following North Korea’s more recent promises to suspend missile tests and […] Read more »