As a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States, the G7, and other international partners have imposed unprecedented global economic sanctions on the Russian Federation with the goal…

In October of this year, the Marshall Islands, situated in the Central Pacific, was the last of three island nations to renew their Compact of Free Association (COFA) with the United States, inking…

The Federal Reserve plays an essential role in balancing fiscal and monetary policies to shape the U.S. economy, through interest rate manipulation aimed at controlling inflation or stimulating it when necessary. Their most…

Twelve years after a major earthquake and tsunami led to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, effects of the catastrophe linger, most recently impacting the fishing industry of Japan. As part of the cleanup, radioactive…

Recent data from an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report last week has indicated that a financial crisis in China is no longer unthinkable. One of the world’s preeminent emerging economies is now bracing…

Have you ever planned on going to bed at reasonable hour only to find yourself on TikTok until 3am? Yeah, me too… TikTok was first launched in 2018 by Chinese tech giant ByteDance.…

The European Union (“EU”) is in the process of rolling out new data privacy laws that target social media and tech giants, like Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, and Google, among others.  The Digital Services…

With the fourth partial government shutdown in a decade on the horizon, many Americans are wondering what impact this will have on them, their benefits, and their day-to-day lives. For anyone who eats,…

Those waking up in Ukraine do not greet the morning with the smell of coffee and beautiful blue skies. Rather, they are waking up to loud explosions, smoke-engulfed buildings collapsing, and missiles striking…

Shadow banks are institutions that engage in the activity of banking, just like other banking institutions, but are not themselves regulated like those institutions. While traditional banking institutions are subject to intense regulation,…