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Too Many Bad Loans In China? The enormous $ 7.62 trillion shadow banking system financed bad investments in saturated sectors. What if it all crumbles? Is China's incredible boom about to end in a crash?

By Paolo von Schirach March 14, 2014 WASHINGTON – Until very recently a large number of Western analysts bought...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk Both Defiant And Conciliatory In A Speech At The Atlantic Council The Ukrainian leader has received open support from President Obama on Crimea. But it is not clear how far the US and Europe are willing to go if Russia does not back down

By Paolo von Schirach March 12, 2014 WASHINGTON – The Western world seems to be united in its support...

A New Balance Of Power When America Will Start Exporting Gas Germany, Europe and the Ukraine would rather depend on supllies from Chevron than from Gazprom

By Paolo von Schirach March 11, 2014 WASHINGTON – If America were capable of exporting oil and gas, the...

Financial Aid To The Ukraine? Great Idea But Huge Costs Turning the Ukraine around will cost billions of dollars over many years. Western policy-makers have to convince voters that this is a worthwhile effort.

By Paolo von Schirach March 10, 2014 WASHINGTON – A few days ago, I argued in a related piece...

With A Forced Referendum On Joining Russia, The Crimea Crisis Gets Worse Putin could have got most of what he wanted through diplomacy. But now it seems that he wants all out victory. Dangerous game.

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2014/03/05/ukrainians-willing-grant-additional-autonomy-crimea-translation-crimea-lost/ March 7, 2014 WASHINGTON – I recently argued (see link to a...

Ukrainians Are Willing To Grant “Additional Autonomy” To The Crimea – Translation: The Crimea Is Lost Putin wins, sort of. He may not able to stop the new ties between Kiev and the West. But he gets to control a piece of Ukraine

By Paolo von Schirach March 5, 2014 WASHINGTON – I recently wrote that Vladimir Putin, come what may, will...

With Or Without A Major Crisis In The Ukraine, Putin Determines The Agenda A timid West is in a reactive mode, mostly hoping that Putin will calm down and be nice

By Paolo von Schirach Related piece: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2014/03/03/ukraine-crisis-end-game-putin-gets-keep-crimea/ March 4, 2014 WASHINGTON – What is truly worrisome about the ongoing...

Ukraine Crisis End Game: Putin Gets To Keep The Crimea Sadly, the West has no stomach to engage in a protracted confrontation with Moscow. Europe is weak. America is impotent

By Paolo von Schirach March 3, 2014 WASHINGTON – The official Russian description of what is happening in the...

Americans Waste One-Third Of All The Money Spent On Health Care Incredible but true. Fixing Obamacare will not solve any of the problems due to over spending

By Paolo von Schirach March 2, 2014 WASHINGTON – The Obamacare fiasco, or at least semi-fiasco, continues to generate...

Putin Loses The Ukraine, But He Gets To Keep The Crimea – Happy Ending? Russia takes a calculated risk because it sees America as powerless.

By Paolo von Schirach March 1, 2014 WASHINGTON – Let me give you my ultra simplified assessment of what...