• Bloomberg notes that Brexit could give Scotland a chance to take some of London's finance industry, looks at the Canadian-born governor of the Bank of England, looks at a quiet crisis in the Russian economy re: investment, and notes the awkwardness of the British diaspora in the European Union.
• Bloomberg View notes the United Kingdom's upcoming ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes Petrobras' dismissal of rumours it is threatened by the impeachment, observes that many Europeans expect a chain reaction of departures if the United Kingdom leaves, notes that a return to high economic growth in Israel will require including the Palestinian minority, and
  looks at Panamanian efforts to convince the world that the ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Michael McDonald reports on the relatively strong growth of Central America, although the "relative" has to be underlined in the context of what is, at best, a stagnant Latin American economy.

The slump in raw materials prices that has hurt Brazil, Chile, Peru and Colombia is leaving Central America unscathed ( Read more... )

The Inter Press Service's Iralís Fragiel notes the various external factors that have the potential to complicate the expansion of the Panama Canal.

When the new locks of the expanded Panama Canal begin operations, they will do so amidst numerous challenges, because of the storm clouds hanging over the global economy, especially China. But local ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith updates readers on his writing projects and points them to anthologies looking for new submissions.
• blogTO talks about the origins of Bay Street.
• Centauri Dreams notes new discoveries about the origins of mysterious "fast radio bursts".
• The Dragon's Tales notes how a genetic study of Panama's population showed the impact of ( Read more... )

Bloomberg View'a Mac Margolis reports about hidden corruption and crime in Panama.

Last year was one most of Latin America would rather forget. The region trailed the world in economic growth, led on inflation, and posted the highest fiscal deficit after the Middle East and North Africa, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence ( Read more... )

Emilio Godoy at the Inter Press Service suggests the future of agriculture may be vertical.

Infrared thermometer in hand, Nelson Pérez checks the water temperature in the trays where dozens of small lettuce plants are growing in a nutrient-rich liquid in this vertical farm in Panama ( Read more... )

Iralís Fragiel of the Inter Press Service writes about how, between Panama's modernization of its interoceanic canal and Nicaragua's plans to build one, the dream of the canal as a trigger for growth seems widespread throughout Central America.

Nicholas Suchecki Guillén is blind. His dream was to visit the Panama Canal expansion works, touch the ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture has a photo essay about albino children in Panama.
• Crooked Timber considers African-American radicalism.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper imagining the frequency of habitable planets in other universes, and links to another suggesting that to host habitable worlds exoplanet systems will need their worlds to have aligned orbits.
• Joe ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera's Joe Jackson describes how the theoretically impassable border between Panama and Colombia has become a major crossing ground of all kinds, all the more unregulatable because of its historical impassability.

[The Panama-Colombia border is] one of the only international frontiers without a pliable road across it. The 225km boundary, ( Read more... )