Pundits saw it, as they will wrongly see the fall of Syria, as a blow toward Russian ambitions in the area, not calculating the negative value of unleashing chaos in a region consumed by the Iranian-U.S./Israeli proxy war. As a side note, watching Quaddafi being sodomized on TV after...
Base rates can change on a whim (have seen hourly rates that change by US$0.01 within a week) presumably based on market demands and supply (e.g. if the cost of electricity goes up in one region, expect cloud service rates to also increase) Usage-based charges: vCPU hours: Charge ...
Well, I didn’t attempt to predict what I was actually going to play in 2019, so this is a different avenue. I’ll open up with the usual suspects. Easy Picks EVE Online Pretty much a lock since I played it 12 out of 12 months in 2018. If I log in today and play, I’m cove...
The quarter-inch armor plate on White-built half-tracks was fabricated and installed by the Diebold Safe and Lock Company. Once the chassis was complete, the partially finished vehicles were driven to the Diebold plant where the armor was installed. Then the vehicles were driven back to the ...
Already more than eight million illegal entrants have come across, with another quarter-million entering each month. As in Ukraine and elsewhere, there is no endgame. When will the border close? How much will caring for the millions cost (New York City has processed more than 160,000 ...
Embattled European fertilizer and petrochemical producers may be the first in line to cut gas consumption if the region experiences a cold snap in the weather. Russia, Europe’s largest gas supplier, has been limiting exports to less than a quarter of its deliveries two years ago and may sto...
The war in Ukraine A moment of reckoning for the oil and gas industry In this report, we survey some of the consequences of the war in Ukraine on the oil and gas industry to date. We also frame the critical uncertainties that will shape scenarios about the war's economic and business ...
October 12, 2019 Trump will capitulate on the trade war. Why? The key lies in who rescued Trump from his bankruptcies, who is the same person to support Trump financially in his election campaign. That person made his billions in casinos. That person has a casino in Macau, and that cas...
The Mediterranean Theater By 1917, German and Austrian submarines operating in the Mediterranean were sinking Allied shipping at an alarming rate. During the entire war, the Allies would lose 12 million tons of shipping and a full quarter of that shipping was lost in the Mediterranean Sea. Despit...
In the second quarter of 2019, China’s GDP grew by 6.2% – its slowest pace in 27 years – from 6.4% in the previous quarter. The Chinese government took several measures to support the local manufacturing industry and to boost liquidity in the financial system such as c...