Tag: Ukraine

A record sell-off coupled with a shifting economic backdrop mean opportunities in global fixed income markets have appeared. It has been an extraordinary time for bond markets. As an asset class, fixed income is often seen as equities’ boring cousin, particularly over the past decade of low yields. Recent months, however, have been anything but boring, albeit for the wrong reasons.

It is evident that the invasion of Ukraine was prompted by the inept Biden Administration and the US's chaotic exit from Afghanistan. In addition, Russian President Vladimir Putin was emboldened by the US and NATO's inability to secure European borders and protect those who were promised to be protected.

Read our exclusive cover story titled PUTIN'S WAR - A DEFECTOR'S PERSPECTIVE by Professor Yuri Maltsev, Carthage College and Contributing Author, Free Market Foundation, as well a host of other topical management articles written by professionals, consultants and academics in the April/May 2022 edition of BusinessBrief.

On February 24th Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Even as I write his troops are still bombing civilian targets and killing women, children and the elderly.