Author: Christine Schier

Our newsletter has repeatedly warned that stablecoins, by luring depositors away from banks, would destroy bank credit. Now, the alarm has been sounded by central banks. A new study by the Federal Reserve of New York documents that stablecoins “erode banks’ deposit franchises” and “impact bank lending”. Not only that, they “also transmit liquidity stress to the banking system”. The […]

The main result of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s visit to China on Feb. 24-26 is the commitment to take the strategic industrial partnership with the Chinese to a new level, and this resonates very much with the outlook of German industry. In particular in the automobile sector, which is in severe difficulty in Germany, including the struggle to maintain the […]

Independent presidential candidate and long-time LaRouche associate Diane Sare delivered her own State of the Union Address via livestream video on Feb. 23, preceding by 25 hours that given by President Donald Trump, and the difference between the two could hardly be greater. Diane Sare began by saying that she has “low to no confidence that the current occupant of […]

Artificial Intelligence is much more integrated into defense policies of the major powers than one might think, despite its obvious shortcomings. The danger of relying on such technologies in the real world was just recently underscored in a series of “war scenarios” run by Professor Kenneth Payne of King’s College, London. The study placed three leading AI models – GPT-5.2, […]

Another record in grain production was broken in China in 2025, with nearly 15 million tons more produced than the record over 700 million tons it had reached in 2024. Thus, the country’s per-capita grain availability rose to over 500 kilograms per year, despite “complex global geopolitics and mounting economic pressures” worldwide, as the Global Times editorial put it on […]

Zhang Weiwei, Professor of International Relations, and Director of China Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, spoke after Helga Zepp-LaRouche at the March 2 EIR Roundtable. Excerpts of his address follow. “Today, really, the world is in crisis, in chaos. There is a lot of deeply intertwined turmoil and many crises: the war against Iran, launched by the United States and Israel; […]

Will the United States launch an attack on Iran in the next days? Will it be with limited or massive strikes? These are the questions strategists are asking themselves. As usual with U.S. President Trump, there is no predictable answer. If the attack does take place, all indications are that it will have incalculable consequences (cf. below). While the conflict […]

As it stands as of this writing, U.S.-Iran negotiations are to be resumed again on Feb. 26 in Geneva, with the participation of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, after Tehran has produced a written compromise proposal. President Trump has said his decision on whether or not to attack Iran “massively” will depend on the outcome of those talks. Meanwhile, the […]

The widespread use of tariffs by U.S. President Trump was overturned by a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, announced on Feb. 20. The tariffs had been imposed on imported goods to address what Trump called unfair trade practices, which he argued were the principle cause of the country’s trade deficit. He also used them to bring countries in line […]

During Friedrich Merz’s visit to China Feb. 24-26, he is accompanied by a delegation of some 30 leading CEOs of German industry. This alone indicates the importance of German companies’ interest in China, which was marked by a 55% increase in direct new investments during 2025, reaching a total of seven billion euros. And that, in turns, shows that the […]