David Cloud

3 weeks ago | tovima.com | David Cloud

Armed groups lost access to dollars when a banking loophole was closed. They quickly pivoted to exploit a currency-exchange scheme using cards that at its peak involved $1.5 billion a month. Iraq was a minor market for Visa and Mastercard a couple of years ago, generating just $50 million a month or less in cross-border transactions at the start of 2023. Then it exploded to around $1.5 billion in April that year, a 2900% increase almost overnight. What changed?

3 weeks ago | livemint.com | David Cloud

Iraq was a minor market for Visa and Mastercard a couple of years ago, generating just $50 million a month or less in cross-border transactions at the start of 2023. Then it exploded to around $1.5 billion in April that year, a 2900% increase almost overnight. What changed?

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | David Cloud

Armed groups lost access to dollars when a banking loophole was closed. They quickly pivoted to exploit a currency-exchange scheme using cards that at its peak involved $1.5 billion a month. ALEXANDRA CITRIN-SAFADI/WSJIraq was a minor market for Visa and Mastercard a couple of years ago, generating just $50 million a month or less in cross-border transactions at the start of 2023. Then it exploded to around $1.5 billion in April that year, a 2900% increase almost overnight. What changed?

Feb 13, 2025 | jp.wsj.com | David Cloud |Alexander Ward |James Areddy

【ワシントン】ドナルド・トランプ米大統領は、泥沼化する世界の紛争を解決するため従来と異なる対応を打ち出している。ウクライナでの戦争を巡っては、ロシアに譲歩した形で解決への協議を提案している。また、ガザ地区については全住民の移住を計画し、パレスチナ国家樹立への期待を打ち砕いた。　同氏が示したこれらの青写真は、数十年続いてきた米国の政策を否定するものであり、また、終わりの見えない衝突を解決しようとこれまで打ち出されてきた案がいずれも失敗に終わったという明確な主張でもある。Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Feb 13, 2025 | myemail.constantcontact.com | David Cloud |Lingling Wei |Alan Cullison |Bohdan Nahaylo

Quotes of the Day:"Only life lived for others is worthwhile." - Albert Einstein“Socrates said, “The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.” He wasn’t talking about grammar. To misuse language is to use it the way politicians and advertisers do, for profit, without taking responsibility for what the words mean. Language used as a means to get power or make money goes wrong: it lies. Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth.