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By Alex Rogers
- “The escalating Ukraine crisis rocked global financial markets Monday, driving up oil prices significantly and sending investors rushing into perceived safe-haven assets such as the yen, while they cut their exposure to stocks.” [WSJ]
- “Two days after Vladimir Putin defied President Obama’s warning not to intervene in Ukraine‘s Crimea region, administration officials said they are already taking punitive economic and diplomatic action against Russia and warned, in the words of one, that ‘the Russians have badly miscalculated here.’ But the same officials steered clear of suggestions that they are considering a U.S. military role to protect Ukraine from Russian encroachment.” [TIME]
- “I’d be happy if we could interrupt Russia’s mistakes, but so far Putin insists on doing the wrong thing.” [David Ignatius]
- Democrats Try Wooing Ones Who Got Away: White Men [NYT]
- The Corporate-Pizza Oscars [New Yorker]
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