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Commentary Some clarity emerged from the China Evergrande saga as the embattled real estate developer triaged its finances by electing to forego paying offshore bondholders in favor of conserving cash to pay Chinese customers and stakeholders. After weeks of customer protests, credit downgrades, and rumors of default, Evergrande elected to pay onshore bondholders and was […]
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China’s Xi Walks Political Tightrope as Evergrande, Property Market Totters
September 27th, 2021 
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No Comments »French tightrope walker completes 600-meter walk on slackline in Paris
September 19th, 2021 Awake Goy A French daredevil wowed crowds in the centre of Paris by walking 600 meters on a tightrope between the Eiffel Tower and Trocadero Square. Nathan Paulin, a famous tightrope artist, relied on a narrow strip of rope just 2.5cm (one inch) wide to keep him safe. Thousands of people watched him start the walk from […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: completes, french, meter, Paris, slackline, tightrope, walker No Comments »Teachers are on a tightrope with no safety net
November 14th, 2020 Awake Goy After more than a month into New York City’s experiment with reopening schools in a hybrid format that has students alternating between classrooms and their homes, teacher Sapphira Hendrix still finds herself working until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning, planning lessons and responding to students. One night, in particular, she recounts, when finishing […]
Walking The Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide
August 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Latin America’s Pink Tide Pink Tide. Daniel Del Toro. Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings, edited by economic historian and prominent Latin Americanist Steve Ellner, offers a critical ethical theoretical framework for assessing the performance of left and left-of-center governments in Latin America during the Pink Tide. The “Pink Tide” refers to the […]
Daredevil’s spine-chilling tightrope stunt above violent waves hits dramatic snag (VIDEO)
February 5th, 2018 Awake Goy A group of highliners, known as Western Riders, connected a wire between two cliffs in Nazaré, Portugal – the location of the biggest wave ever surfed, according to the Guinness World Records. Brazilian highliner Emerson Machado pulled off the elaborate stunt as monster waves crashed beneath him. Drone footage filmed by Máquina Voadora shows Machado […]
Posted in World News Tags: above, chilling, daredevil, spine, stunt, tightrope, violent No Comments »Walking the tightrope between chaos and order
January 28th, 2018 Awake Goy In January, Jordan B Peterson was in London to launch his new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. His lecture tour sold out and was extended twice, filling the auditorium of the Emmanuel Centre, a church-come-conference venue with a capacity of 1,000 souls, to bursting. Peterson, who only eighteen months earlier […]
