Whether US President Donald Trump can bend America’s central bank to his will has been a subject of feverish global speculation. The Federal Reserve has autonomy, of course and, as its current chairperson Jerome Powell mentioned in a recent media interface, the White House cannot fire him under the law before his term ends in…
The Joe Biden administration has unveiled sweeping curbs on the sale of advanced AI chips by semiconductor companies including Nvidia Corp. The new rules will limit the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries. It will allow unlimited access to US AI technology for America’s closest allies, while also maintaining a…
U.S. former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump departs after speaking during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City on September 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A judge agreed Friday (September 6, 2024) to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case until after the November election, granting him a…
On coming to power Jim Hacker, the protagonist of “Yes, Prime Minister”, a British comedy series, asks about the hotline to the Kremlin. It works only “theoretically”, he is told; once they reached a switchboard operator who “didn’t seem to speak much English”. What’s more, using it “tends to create unnecessary panic at the other…
