Inside a Siberian Crypto Mining Complex

In Siberia, cheap hydropower, cold climate, and abandoned Soviet industrial infrastructure has made the region of Irkutsk an attractive spot […]

By Aidualc | 11 Nov 19 | Posted in Asia, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Investment Wisdom, Private Equity, Tools and Resources, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Central banks bought more gold in 2018 than any year since 1967- WGC

* Gold demand rose 4 pct to 4,345.1 tonnes in 2018 * Central bank purchases surged 74 percent to 651.5 […]

By Aidualc | 12 Feb 19 | Posted in Commodities, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Traveling Through Multiple Europes

By Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor, Europe is overcrowded with people and with nations. Six decades ago, the need to suppress the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 10 Nov 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

East Prussia

The recent development of the events in the former Soviet Union (FSU) brought more attention to the tendencies of aspiration […]

By Vladimir Vepryev | 06 Sep 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Regions, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Borderlands: Hungary Maneuvers

Geopolitical Weekly By George Friedman I am writing this from Budapest, the city in which I was born. I went to […]

By MarketAngel | 28 Jul 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Borderlands: The View Beyond Ukraine

From Stratfor, Installment in George Friedman’s recent series written during his journey from the Baltics, through Central and Eastern Europe […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Jun 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Geopolitical Journey, Part 2: Borderlands

By George Friedman, Stratfor, A borderland is a region where history is constant: Everything is in flux. The countries we […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 04 Jun 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Borderlands: First Moves in Romania

By George Friedman, Stratfor, I arrived in Bucharest, Romania, the day after U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. U.S. Secretary of Defense […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 28 May 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Russia Examines Its Options for Responding to Ukraine

By George Friedman, Stratfor, The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Mar 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Ukraine’s Increasing Polarization and the Western Challenge

By Eugene Chausovsky, Stratfor, Just days before the Ukrainian crisis broke out, I took an overnight train to Kiev from […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 12 Mar 14 | Posted in Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)