Trump’s return
RECENTLY this week, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated the 47th President of the United States.
Trump started his second term by focusing on domestic...
China’s looming economic weakness
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
A LOT OF financial analysts are wary of 2025, and many think that a recession may be coming very soon.
China,...
When an empire fights itself
AS DONALD Trump’s second presidential inauguration nears, both his supporters and detractors are already making predictions about his second presidency.
Most of these are...
2025’s financial problems
YEAR 2025 could start with a global financial downturn.
As of December 28, 2024, the Yuan, the Real, Rupee, the Korean Won and the...
Coping with global uncertainty
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
PEOPLE who keep track of global current events can be usually cynical.
It comes with the territory. You can’t make...
The chaos in Syria may have just begun
THERE has been a lot of talk about what happens to Syria now that Assad has been ousted.
Optimists proclaim that the rebel leaders...
Syria has fallen
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
WHEN I first wrote this article, I thought Syria’s Bashar Al Assad would pull through, but as things have turned...
A new type of elite
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
AN INTERESTING part of Donald Trump’s 2024 United States’ presidential election campaign was how it was supported by major figures...
Are the nukes about to start flying?
BY JED JALECO DEL ROSARIO
LAST WEEK, there was news that outgoing United States President Joe Biden and other Western leaders allowed Ukraine to use...
What Trump’s second term could mean for US allies (and enemies)
BACK in 2016, I originally thought that the United States might return to isolationism under Donald Trump or at least, demilitarization.
That prediction had...