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Will India and Pakistan go nuclear?
Everyone from diplomats (Russians included) to PhDs, plus the world’s top UN watchdog, and energy executives, all crammed into a DC nuclear conference this week. Hosted by the elite Carnegie Foundation, panels featured the conversations of the day — Iran, US nuclear talks, South Korea’s growing arsenal and Poland’s pledge to build nuclear plants. And […]
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Why the IMF might be done and dusted… or not
It was a week ago that International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Kristalina Georgieva kicked off the Fund’s DC ‘spring meetings’ with an ominous note — “trade policy uncertainty is off the charts”. You could feel it in the DC air, with Intrigue sources confirming delegations from every corner of the globe were scrambling for meetings with […]
The central bank war for independence
US stocks and the US dollar plunged again on Monday after the president colourfully called on Jerome Powell, the Fed Chair, to cut rates. Anyway, while this monetary soap opera plays out on the world stage, it’s reignited a debate that everyone thought was resolved decades ago: the notion that central banks must be independent from politics. Why? The […]
The pope’s geopolitical legacy
For centuries, popes hardly ventured beyond Rome, with the occasional epic exception like Pius VII, who only left town because Napoleon abducted him! But the jet era — and a 1929 treaty establishing Vatican statehood — changed all that. Enter Pope Francis. With a 2013 arrival full of pope-firsts (the first Jesuit, the first from […]
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