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A number of moving parts are driving events in this part of the world. Apart from the price of oil, the region is in a juncture, a juncture that would be decisive in the coming months because of an overriding process of political and geoeconomic pressure points. Let’s begin with the constraints on how capital is linearly distributed in the embedded sections of societies all across the region. -Most of produce in terms of economic output and input is positioned and concentrate

The Pentagon Just Handed Silicon Valley the Pen: The Winners and Losers of Project Meridian On Wednesday, the US Defense Secretary made a big ask at Marine Corps Base Quantico - he wanted the people who are always thinking about the future to tell him what's coming next. He's put together a team to review the kinds of weapons and technology the US military will need in future wars, and it's a pretty impressive group. >Elon Musk, SpaceX and Tesla boss is on board, along with P

Emanuel Bajra Askush nuk ka top të kristaltë për ta ditur, por një gjë është e rëndësishme të kuptohet: tregjet tashmë janë bërë tepër dinamike për shijen e një investitori apo tregtari të përditshëm. Janë tre faktorë që po i shtyjnë tregjet të riformatohen këto ditët e fundit. 1. Faktori i derivateve dhe i mallrave. Ekziston një tension i paparë ndërmjet këtyre dy strategjive. Derivatet refuzojnë t'i mbështesin vlerësimet e mallrave, sepse këto të fundit kanë filluar të flir

The fly escaped through the tight net that Elisa has built in all around her property, in particular the kitchen area where most of the flies see though the tiny holes and slip through to land themselves in the juicy boiling soup she has been making for her and three-year-old Bappy (A hybrid child, conceived through metal engineering means, when life on earth were meaningful and emotions bred a sense of security and stability. Nowadays, people handle things differently. Its m

2049 · A condensed version of the novella for the blog. Part One as written — morning of 14 April 2049, apartment 7C. The author’s note at the end is his. Don’t open your eyes, darling. Don’t, my dear. We can’t afford to wake up my son. Esmira says this in a whisper so thin it barely disturbs the air, and the air itself in this room has already been paid for, and is already running out. The first thing you need to understand about the morning of the fourteenth of April, 204

Version i shkurtuar për blogun, nga rromani (gjashtë kapituj në burim). Asgjë e shpikur përtej asaj që është në tekst. Mbaron, në burim, me Shkurt 202......! Quhem Frank. Gjuhën që flas është gjuha angleze, përderisa kam pas fatin të jem lindur në vendin e shqiponjave, në vendin e të lirëve më të mëdhenjë të botës, në Shtetet e Bashkuara. Ka ca ditë që nuk po më zë gjumi në këtë vendin ku kam ardhur për një vizitë të shkurtër, si dëshirë e miqve të mi. Mos më pyet për miqtë e

2020, July · ‘Beyond that wall nothing happens. Not a soul, not a pristine body of nature breathes there’ Spike the sculptor tells the young soul Callum who at the age of fourteen is prone to go beyond the fixed lines that the Castlelords have set for each willing participants of the new world. Well, new world! When I mutter that, does not mean it’s the real new world, but only a fraction of what has been managed to be saved. Spike has this habit of coming really close to t

Read that again. The yen rescue is already a footnote. The thirty-year is not. Treasury bought yen with Japan in the same month it doubled long-end buybacks. On Friday a new Fed chair walks to a Wyoming podium with a nine-to-three committee behind him. The instinctive reading is independence: Tokyo defends the yen, Washington defends duration, the Federal Reserve defends its vote. It is still one funding market. Two feet are on the same pedal. The fade The intervention bought

Sack remembers when he had left Andes, he was one of the few who could fly the no-fly zone over the Andes, through Brasil and into United States. No one would know his whereabouts once his G800 had entered US airspace, the ping was gone, the green spot on the radar systems is vanished and until Sack returns and reenters the Venezuelan airspace, which would be a few days later, no one would know where he was staying or what was he doing in the United States. You could be goi

The US Treasury has just bought yen. Read that again, it inverts forty years of intuition. The issuer of the world's reserve currency intervened, jointly with Japan's Ministry of Finance for the first time in this direction since 1998, to weaken its own currency against a G7 peer at four-decade lows. The instinctive reading is that this is a story about the yen. It is a story about the dollar. Look beneath the headline though. Japan is not simply selling dollars to defend its

Si u lind bindja se njeriu është material i përpunueshëm dhe si konspiracionet e vërteta të shekullit XX u bënë babai i teorive konspirative të shekullit XXI Ka një pyetje që e përshkon historinë moderne si një tel i tendosur nën dysheme: a është njeriu i dhënë, apo i bërë? Nëse është i dhënë nga Zoti, nga natyra, nga një rend që na paraprin atëherë detyra jonë është ta njohim dhe ta respektojmë. Por nëse është i bërë produkt i rastësisë, i seleksionimit, i rrethanave atëherë

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Stingers are approaching with ferocious speed. Captain C is lying on his couch, puffing away his smoke. Unusual for someone to be in space and smoke. But the Omnifluxers are wide and diverse, inclusive and tolerant of all earthly joys and extravagances. The builders made them larger than the usual ships constructed from the fourth decade of last century well into the new century, when humanity started realizing its doom unless something changed. That giveaway was Valedictory

My name is Emanuel Bajra. I was born in Gjakova, Kosovo, in 1980, although over the years I have come to feel that I belong as much to roads, airports, libraries and conversations as I do to any single place. Today, I divide my time between London and Kosovo, living somewhere between two worlds and, perhaps, several more that exist only in imagination. By profession, I have spent almost two decades in international financial markets. I have worked in banking, asset management