As a chemically stable metal that does not rust easily, the formation process of gold is quite complex, and it is expensive to mine and refine. Today, only 210,000 tons of gold have been mined globally.
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The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force in March 2024. Intending to reduce the cutthroat competition and monopoly behavior among technology companies, the new law regulates and revamps Internet business operations.
The 21st century is undoubtedly the century of the battle for resources. And what are resources if not the main currency that leaders all around the world use when negotiating their position in the international system?
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again because it’s important: I believed that the Biden-Trump debate was meant to convince the entire American public that their president is medically unfit to lead the country.
The share price of American chip giant Nvidia peaked on June 19, 2024, topping the list and becoming the listed company with the highest market capitalization in the United States.
Noticed or not, the changes in world energy happened. At the same time that global petroleum is approaching its peak, clean energy is developing rapidly.
North Korea and Russia have formed a “global strategic partnership,” promising to support one another in the case of aggression against either country, which is a major move on the international scene.
Last weekend saw the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland, which unsurprisingly, yielded no tangible results since only one of the conflicting parties, Ukraine, was represented and Russia was not invited.
The topic of today’s editorial is related to peace, and the proposal I am formulating is from the position of a journalist, that is, a public intellectual, who is now running for the presidency of Romania.