Links — 21 Jan 2022

The Cradle

Iran-Russia hit maximum strategy

Pepe Escobar

https://thecradle.co/Article/columns/6033

Asia Times — Opinion
Epidemic of insanity strikes America’s leaders

Spengler (David p. Goldman)

https://asiatimes.com/2022/01/epidemic-of-insanity-strikes-americas-leaders/

 
Naked Capitalism
Macron Suggests EU-Russia Talks. Meltdown Among EU, US Apparatchiks Follows.
Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/macron-suggests-eu-russia-talks-meltdown-among-eu-us-apparatchiks-follows.html

Moon of Alabama
U.S. - Russian Talks Are A Sign Of Progress

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/01/us-russian-talks-are-a-sign-of-progress.html

The Vineyard of the Saker
Is there a deal being prepared behind the scenes?
The Saker

http://thesaker.is/is-there-a-deal-being-prepared-behind-the-scenes/

Spiegel Online (nice economy you have there. It would be too bad if something happened to it.)
A War of Nerves: Germany Has Little Maneuvering Room in Ukraine Conflict

Markus Becker et al

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-war-of-nerves-germany-has-little-maneuvering-room-in-ukraine-conflict-a-faece2a7-c098-48cb-a9cc-cd0d5daf78f1#ref=rss

 
Mintpress News
ASPI – The Gov’t-Funded Conspiracist Think Tank Now Controlling Your Social Media Feed
Alan Macleod

https://www.mintpressnews.com/aspi-think-tank-controlling-twitter/279490/

Hellenic Shipping News
IMF sees cost of COVID pandemic rising beyond $12.5 trillion estimate
IMF/OECD News
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/imf-sees-cost-of-covid-pandemic-rising-beyond-12-5-trillion-estimate/

The Guardian
IMF warns China over cost of Covid lockdown

Phillip Inman

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/21/imf-warns-china-over-cost-of-covid-lockdowns

DW
Davos: IMF chief says world must 'spend billions' to 'gain trillions'

https://www.dw.com/en/davos-imf-chief-says-world-must-spend-billions-to-gain-trillions/a-60518489

Naked Capitalism (pushing the population limit – revisiting Malthusianism)
UN Report: The World’s Farms Stretched to ‘A Breaking Point’
Dana Nuccitelli
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/un-report-the-worlds-farms-stretched-to-a-breaking-point.html

Sputnik International
Biden Says US, China Need Not Have Confrontation But Have Economic Competition
https://sputniknews.com/20220121/biden-says-us-china-need-not-have-confrontation-but-have-economic-competition-1092434945.html

Billionaire Entrepreneur Mark Cuban Launches Affordable Online Pharmacy of Generic Drugs

https://sputniknews.com/20220121/mark-cuban-launches-affordable-online-pharmacy-of-generic-drugs--1092436586.html

ECNS
U.S. propaganda against China on Xinjiang groundless: Pakistani officials
Xinhua
http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-01-21/detail-ihauzmfa9716228.shtml

China to become world's largest luxury market by 2025: [Bain] report

Xinhua

http://www.ecns.cn/news/economy/2022-01-22/detail-ihauzmfa9716267.shtml

Yahoo Finance ( 91.4 per cent last month from a year earlier. What happens when you don't think things through.)
Lithuanian exports nearly obliterated from China market amid Taiwan row

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lithuanian-exports-nearly-obliterated-china-093000699.html

The Money Illusion (on disinformation)
Lost in translation
Scott Sumner | Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/lost-in-translation-4/

Conversable Economist
Central Bank Digital Currency: The Fed Speaks
Timothy Taylor | Managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, based at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

https://conversableeconomist.wpcomstaging.com/2022/01/21/central-bank-digital-currency-the-fed-speaks/