On Thursday, December 11th, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the U.S. was pushing Kiev to make territorial concessions to Russia to stop the war, letting...
There are only five ways to categorize information: Alphabet; Time; Location; Category and Hierarchy.
The present technologies organize quickly the first three, and there is little...
There have been lots of speculations about the increase in the price of gold by some 50 percent (from $2,800 to above $4,000 per ounce) since February 2025. Many attribute...
People have always been envious, prejudiced and holding grudges. Human nature has not changed. Yet, what sheds light on the timing of such sentiments resulting in persecutions,...
Section XXI of GATT (the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) titled “Security Exceptions” makes it clear that countries have the right to abandon the rules for...
Missing in debates about free trade and tariffs is discussion both about the movement of people between countries, and the challenge of not having a credible unit of account to...
The net interest on the U.S. Federal Debt is roughly 3 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), amounting to $882 billion. What does this percentage and the absolute number...
Although the way Statistical Offices calculate labor force and working age population numbers vary drastically across countries, it is possible to do a
In March 2014, the Wilson Center published “Why Did Russia Give Away Crimea Sixty Years Ago?” The piece drew on original documents that had come to light
The GAO reported in April of 2024 that the federal government loses an estimated $233 to $521 billion annually to fraud. If these numbers are in the ballpark, two questions arise:...