Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party just won a two-thirds majority in the lower house. This gives Prime Minister Takaichi a rare personal mandate and practically total control of the government for the next few years.

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Japan has a...special way of measuring deficits, leaving true borrowing understated by excluding major obligations like pensions and local government debt, and counting planned bond issuance as income. But Japan isn't the only country facing debt issues.

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The Trump administration has announced a plan to create a $12 billion stockpile of rare earths. The goal is to create a buffer against any supply disruptions, but this is just a band-aid.

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The last remaining US-Russia nuclear arms control agreement has expired, which means for the first time in decades, we're in a world with no active nuclear arms control.

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The EU struggles to take any decisive action on foreign and security policy because it has to wait for all 29 member states to agree. Whereas the US can make and enforce security decisions at the drop of a hat.

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Venezuela has been dragged through the mud thanks to Chávez and Maduro, but it might be seeing its first genuinely positive development in decades.

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First order of business: No, this isn't financial advice. Second order of business: taking a loan out in Yuan to profit from a Chinese collapse is a very bad idea.

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Is India overhyped or genuinely important moving forward? Well, you could make a case for both.

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Let's talk about the current state of electronic warfare in the Ukraine War and how Iran is fitting into all this.

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The EU and India have struck a trade deal, but it’s not the breakthrough it's being made out to be. Just because you sign a trade deal doesn't mean that integration magically appears.

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