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…rt opportunities will remain in several European markets due to the influence of renewables. Moreover, if the European Central Bank were to lower its Main Refinancing Operations rate, currently 75 bps, and provide other monetary policy support, we would expect not only increased...

…cross the Internet. And there is China: continental in size, it produces vastly different local conditions with which a central authority must grapple. Such grappling puts pressure on a regime to grant more rights to its far-flung subjects; or, that being resisted, to become by d...

…d tested again. Like the United States during the Cold War, North Korea has apparently decided that nuclear weapons are central to its national security strategy. With few friends, its conventional military forces outgunned, an economy in tatters, and facing off against a superpo...

…ency law is lifted on June 1. According to reports, Saudi officials have approached Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Central Asian states to lend diplomatic support and, possibly, military assistance to the Gulf Cooperation Council's presence in Bahrain. Saudi national securit...

… relative to the cause of political expression. But it was Rome’s ability to provide a modicum of stability to parts of central Europe and the entire Mediterranean basin— and thus further the cause of personal freedoms (mind you, by the dismal standards of the era)—that is key to...

…openly a Jewish state here and ongoing anti-Israeli incitement and praise of violence on Palestinian airwaves. Another central obstacle to the establishment of a State of Palestine has been the division between the West Bank and Gaza, the first run by the Palestinian Authority a...

…istribution. Bitcoin and other first-generation block-chained currencies eating at the once unquestionable authority of central banks. Drones hovering along ona skein of GPS and data links are also among the new citizens of this connected skein. They are products of a data web: T...

…egulated by Israel Securities Authority; Merrill Lynch (Russia): O00 Merrill Lynch Securities, Moscow, regulated by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation; Merrill Lynch DIFC}: Merrill Lynch International (DIFC Branch}, regulated by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFS...

…s Exchange Control Regulations. Bahrain: UBS AG is a Swiss bank not licensed, supervised or regulated in Bahrain by the Central Bank of Bahrain and does not undertake banking or investment business activities in Bahrain. Therefore, Clients have no protection under local banking a...

…We should have kept resid force in Iraq. Most important function would have been keeping a healthy tension between the central govt and new institutions. For 10 years Iraq has had a centralized power base. With removal of US, you took away support for new institutions. Iraqis...

…ond safety catch is eroding. Networks of deep connection, speed and intelligence will be powerfully more efficient than central planning; they know more than any central bureacrat might have. And they may yet be even more productive at times in their connection and intelligence t...

Russia's Central Bank yesterday ordered the interest rate raised from 0.25 to 3.5 percent and

the system’s central store of various forms of (long-term and working)

which may play central roles in how we age.

has been one of his central interests for almost two decades. He co-founded PayPal and served as the company's chair and