Vernon Silver
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Mario Draghi Cites U.K.’s Covid Response as Example of What Not to Do
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi singled out the U.K.’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic as a great example -- of what not to do. → Read More
How Mexico Forgot Its Covid Crisis
AMLO and his government obscured the truth about cases, deaths, and vaccinations. Can these same people protect the country from the delta surge? → Read More
Inside Pfizer’s Fast, Fraught, and Lucrative Vaccine Distribution
The company is a hero of the pandemic for its Covid-fighting wonder shot. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t made entire countries angry. → Read More
The Final Hurdle in the Covid-19 Vaccine Race Is Bureaucracy
Patriotism and haste combine with an alphabet stew of regulators around the world to raise the prospects of coronavirus chaos. → Read More
Covid Vaccine: Nationalism Will Only Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Much Worse
The world’s governments have opted to lock themselves in a lethal version of the prisoner’s dilemma. → Read More
Life In Italian Lockdown After A Tragic Coronavirus Denial
It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough. → Read More
Italy’s Nightmare Offers a Chilling Preview of What’s Coming
(Bloomberg) -- In Rome, the first signs of change came from overhead. Shortly before cocktail hour on Monday, the thrum-thrum-thrum of a helicopter could be heard above the winding lanes of the 2,000-year-old historic center. The police were keeping an eye on the Trastevere neighborhood, where smoke → Read More
Italy’s Nightmare Offers a Chilling Preview of What’s Coming
(Bloomberg) -- In Rome, the first signs of change came from overhead. Shortly before cocktail hour on Monday, the thrum-thrum-thrum of a helicopter could be heard above the winding lanes of the 2,000-year-old historic center. → Read More
Wall Street Magic Tricks Make Banks Look Safer Than They Are
Increased scrutiny hasn’t put an end to accounting sleight-of-hand. → Read More
Sometimes It Rains Rockets in Russia
Inhabitants of tiny villages 250 miles north of a Russian launch pad transform fallen space metal into everyday necessities. → Read More
Putin's soccer ball for Trump had transmitter chip, logo indicates
Russian President Vladimir Putin's gift of a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump last week set off a chorus of warnings - some of them only half in jest - that the World Cup souvenir could be bugged. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina even tweeted, "I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House." It turns out they weren't entirely… → Read More
Putin's soccer ball for Trump had transmitter chip, logo indicates
Russian President Vladimir Putin's gift of a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump last week set off a chorus of warnings - some of them only half in jest - that the World Cup souvenir could be bugged. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina even tweeted, "I'd check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House." It turns out they weren't entirely… → Read More
Putin’s Soccer Ball for Trump Had Transmitter Chip, Logo Indicates
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gift of a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump last week set off a chorus of warnings -- some of them only half in jest -- that the World Cup souvenir could be bugged. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham even tweeted, “I’d check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House.” → Read More
Putin’s Soccer Ball for Trump Had Transmitter Chip, Logo Indicates
The Adidas ball that Putin gave Trump had a transmitter chip, but it wasn’t what you think. → Read More
Putin’s Soccer Ball for Trump Had Transmitter Chip, Logo Indicates
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s gift of a soccer ball to U.S. President Donald Trump last week set off a chorus of warnings -- some of them only half in jest -- that the World Cup souvenir could be bugged. Photographs from the news conference in Helsinki, where Putin handed the ball to Trump, show → Read More
ECB Tells Italy's Carige to Boost Capital, Consider Merger
The European Central Bank told embattled Italian lender Banca Carige SpA to submit a new plan to boost its capital, saying it should consider a merger as an option and swiftly resolve its corporate-governance crisis. The Genoa-based bank said Sunday that that the ECB rejected its own proposed capital-conservation → Read More
Fiat Chrysler Names Manley CEO; Marchionne's Condition Worsens
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV named Jeep and Ram brands chief Michael Manley to replace Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne, whose health condition has worsened after unexpected complications from surgery, according to a company statement. → Read More
Can Trump Give Barron the Soccer Ball He Got From Putin? It’s Complicated
U.S. President Donald Trump made a snap decision about the Adidas AG soccer ball that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave him in Helsinki this week. → Read More
Can Trump Give Barron the Soccer Ball He Got From Putin? It’s Complicated
U.S. President Donald Trump made a snap decision about the Adidas AG soccer ball that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave him in Helsinki this week. “That will go to my son, Barron. Seven years ago, another world leader gave then-President Barack Obama’s children Adidas soccer balls. → Read More
If You Steal It, the Art Vigilante Will Find You
Using a secret database of tens of thousands of photos, Christos Tsirogiannis is fighting to prevent auction houses from selling looted art. → Read More