AFGHANISTAN: The Grand Chess Game for Control of Central Asian Resources By Michael Cayne Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 Though not being reported in the mainstream American press, there is a very intense struggle going on between the U.S. and China to determine which nation will emerge as the dominant presence in Central Asia. These two…
Editor SWITZERLAND OF THE ORIENT The ironies of Singapore’s massive investment in troubled Swiss banking giant UBS are piling up. Even Lee Kuan Yew himself has now said that the Government Investment Corporation invested “too early” in UBS, with the result that is now showing a loss of billions of dollars of citizens’ money on…
Our Man at Ringside Sees Epic Battle in Gold ” by Rick Ackerman on January 14, 2010 3:31 am GMT · 0 comments The big boys have been trading body blows in gold, producing a lot of violence but no clear winner, at least not yet. We expect the buyers to prevail eventually, and we’d…