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Who gets to be Italian?
Syria is preparing to rejoin the international banking system, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government is trying to prevent …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Swamp Notes: Trump’s big play to save steel production
US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on steel to 50 per cent this week. He’s also allowing Japan’s Nippon to buy the US Steel Corporation. The m…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump and Xi break the ice
US President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping agreed to launch a new round of high-level trade talks, the European Central Bank cut interes…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Bulgaria moves into the Eurozone
Apple’s rollout of artificial intelligence services in China with Alibaba is being held up, Wells Fargo faces an uphill battle to catch up with its r…
9 months ago
Mexico’s new supreme court
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof resigned after far-right leader Geert Wilders walked out of his coalition government, Mexico’s new supreme court is …
9 months ago
Trump’s push to privatise Fannie and Freddie
Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn, and China’s property sector woes are compounded by tariff worries. …
9 months ago
South Korea plots a post-coup future
Private equity dealmaking around the world slowed down in the second quarter of 2025, and South Korea holds elections on Tuesday after months of poli…
9 months ago
Swamp Notes: Do Republicans still care about debt?
Republicans are often known as the party of fiscal responsibility. This week, Swamp Notes unravels the US House of Representatives’ “big, beautiful” …
9 months ago
Trump’s tariffs in legal limbo
The White House is fighting court rulings that US President Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff scheme is illegal, and a former Goldman Sachs bank…
9 months ago
The challenge to Delaware’s corporate dominance
A US court invalidated President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariff scheme yesterday. Nvidia reported a nearly 70 per cent surge in quarterly rev…
9 months ago