Reuters Brussels (AFP) – The European Union on Tuesday warned it may consider additional sanctions against North Korea after it carried out what Pyongyang tested what it claimed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile. Last month, the EU expanded its sanctions blacklist after North Korea launched a volley of surface-to-ship cruise missiles off its east […]
Tag: Ponders
Michigan ponders its automotive future in the connected age
Few people take cars more seriously than Michiganders. I’ve been to the home of BMW in Germany. I’ve been to Kia’s HQ in Korea. I’ve seen Honda’s goods in Japan. No one, from the factory worker to the executive in her pinstriped suit, is more obsessed with cars than Michigan Inc. That’s why it was […]
Riverdale Video: Cole Sprouse Ponders Jughead's Dark Turn in Season 2, Reflects Fondly Upon First Love Scene
If you felt like Jughead was enjoying the feel of that Serpents jacket a little too much in the season finale of Riverdale, you have every right to be concerned. POST MORTEMRiverdale Boss on That Deadly Finale Cliffhanger, a ‘Much Darker’ Archie and the ‘Civil War’ to Come in Season 2 TVLine recently caught up with actor Cole Sprouse on […]
The EU ponders moving euro clearing from London after Brexit
BREXIT has thrust a mundane, if crucial, bit of financial-market plumbing into the spotlight: the clearing of financial instruments. Clearing-houses sit in the middle of a securities or derivatives transaction, and ensure that deals are honoured even if one counterparty goes bust. In November a study commissioned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) warned that […]
America’s Treasury ponders issuing 40-, 50- or 100-year bonds
HOW can governments borrow most cheaply? The answer matters hugely for taxpayers. Take America: it has $ 14trn in outstanding national debt, fully three-quarters of GDP. Interest payments alone are expected to reach $ 280bn this fiscal year—ie, more than three times the combined budgets of the Departments of Education, Labour and Commerce. The problem […]
Japan ponders recycling Fukushima soil for public parks & green areas
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Soil from the Fukushima prefecture may be used as landfill for the creation of “green areas” in Japan, a government panel has proposed, facing potential public backlash over fears of exposure to residual radiation from the decontaminated earth. Read Full Article at RT.com RT – Daily news
The Sweetest Debut: Ann Claycomb Ponders Whether One Can Find Tequila in Ireland
Welcome to The Sweetest Debut, a regular installment in which we reach out to debut (or near-debut, we’re flexible!) fiction, poetry and nonfiction authors working with presses of all sizes and find out about their pop culture diets, their writing habits, and their fan-fiction fantasies. Today: Ann Claycomb on her novel The Mermaid’s Daughter. What is your […]