Analysts have mused about whether China might pick up the mantle of global financial superpower. But capital controls mean it is impossible to imagine the country issuing an international safe asset that is genuinely liquid
Thomas Pynchon is the only realist writer.
The alternative assets are too small, fragile or limited in nature to match the usefulness of American debt
This is what real Irish Republicanism is and has always been.
Lincoln Michel
The Economist
"You can go a lot further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word." Al Capone
Japan: Senior figures from Japan's three largest yakuza syndicates reportedly held a discreet meeting in Tokyo on May 22, bringing together Yamaguchi-gumi underboss Teruaki Takeuchi [pic 1], Inagawa-kai president Kazuya Uchibori, and a senior Sumiyoshi-kai executive.
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