If the US bond market is any indication, President Donald Trump’s escalating belligerence on trade is creating seriously increased risks of recession. But so far I…
Europe• General
The new head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a difficult choice
August 2019It is not easy to predict where financial stresses that require alleviation by the IMF will emerge next, or what form the mitigation strategies will take.…
When the US declared China a currency manipulator, long-building trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies spread to the combustible realm of currencies – with…
Donald Trump’s declaration that “trade wars are good and easy to win” will surely go down in the history books as a classic utterance – but…
Over the past few years, much of the world has experienced a collective loss of technological innocence that is as jarring as its initial embrace of…
What are we going to do about all the cameras? To be honest, this question keeps me up at night, in something like terror. Cameras are…
People concerned about privacy often try to be “careful” online. They stay off social media, or if they are on it, they post cautiously. They don’t…
What is the fastest growing part of the American economy today? The answer is the gathering, analyzing and selling of our digital data. The extraction of…
There is a social plague called modesty. It is the single main dynamic that can erode your value and the value of your business. Your mother…
Everyone has a few missing pieces in the puzzle of life. A few pieces which are lost and can never be replaced and a few which…