Oracle and Cyprus had stocks jittery today despite some 'better than expected' domestic US economic news.
The EU has set a deadline of Monday for Cyprus to resolve its impasse. So it looks like another Sunday evening showdown.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception