If you were to pick a financial word of the year, “meme” in my opinion might qualify. Remember the mania around GameStop, when frenzied retail buying…
Coronavirus• Economy
Climate Change and Covid-19 is the Result of a Last decade for Emerging Markets – BRICS is in the need of an Overhaul and Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) Need Urgently to Press the Recovery Button by Softening Their Credit Ratings
September 2021The economic crisis induced by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the most serious setback to development progress and poverty alleviation in recent memory. There is…
Economy
From Climate Change to Climate Action-Climate Skepticism Will Not Achieve Net Zero
August 2021We have come a long way along. Policies to green the economy, such as carbon taxes and emissions trading, are well understood, and getting to net…
Brexit• Economy• Europe
Europe’s Recovery Fund – No Rush as Brussels needs the right design for holding members to commitments
May 2021It is almost a year since French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel threw their weight behind the idea of an EU recovery fund…
Manufacturing in my opinion matters a lot! While it has become increasingly automated and globalized over the past several decades, it still holds a special place…
We are in a global baby bust of unprecedented proportions. It is far from over and its implications are gravely underestimated. The worldwide fertility rate has…
Economy• Technology
Surveillance Capitalism – Big Tech Must Share Profits With Traditional Media
April 2021Recently Facebook carried out what may have been the single largest content takedown in its history. Any content that looked vaguely like news, even if it…
Cryptocurrencies• Economy
The Big Tech Nightmare – The Anti – Democratic Surveillance Capitalism
April 2021Two decades ago, the American government left democracy’s front door open to California’s fledgling internet companies, a cozy fire lit in welcome. In the years that…
Economy• Middle East
Corporations need a Changemaker Capitalism to be able to drive innovation
March 2021We currently live in a time during which nothing is more important than the individual and his or her well-being. Yet, we have chambers rife with…
In January the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new…