China’s property – driven growth model, which has powered the global economy for at least two decades, is in my opinion looking increasingly broken. Fixing it…
China• Economy
Economy• General
The change in demography means… that governments of the world need to act fast on government debt levels and budgets… It’s looking really bad…
September 2022For the first time in history, there are more people over the age of 65 than under 5. Pensioners outnumber children in a growing number of…
Technology
From the monopoly of Big Tech to Space Tech – there is an urgent need to regulate the exploitation of space’s limited resources of the low – Earth orbit
September 2022The possibilities space offers are in my opinion almost endless. The navigation systems in our cars and phones; the weather observation satellites analyzing this summer’s heatwave…
Argentina
Argentina – a country full of resources of what the world desperately needs a country which is getting nothing done in return
August 2022Argentina in my opinion should be booming. The South American nation sits atop some of the world’s biggest shale oil and gas reserves. It has a…
US
Trump! Let’s talk about Trump as it has been some time that I have actually written about him – but don’t worry, my opinion has not changed and my previous prediction were not too wrong either
August 2022We all supposed to learn from failure. Our mistakes become the bridge to our successes, teaching us what works and what doesn’t, so that the next…
Economy• Italy
Italy will hit the wall: the Italian economic crisis has very little to do with fiscal profligacy or general incompetence as the most competent person, Mario Draghi is gone
August 2022As president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi most probably saved the euro. In my estimation, this makes him one of history’s greatest central…
Russia• Ukraine
After Russia’s invasion into Ukraine the “game is on” for oil and gas the next three years will identify the “winners and losers”
July 2022The great oil shocks of the 1970s taught western politicians a sobering lesson about the might of the world’s energy superpowers. Fifty years later, that lesson…
Shocks such as COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine command not only our attention but also has a deep influence of reshaping the world from…
Economy
Current inflation rates represent the price of comfort and convenience – complex supply chains created by the “Middleman”
June 2022Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism ,famously thought that fair markets required a shared moral framework between buyer and seller. That’s no surprise, considering that…
Africa• Russia
Russia’s military operation causes a world food crisis for the poorest nation on the planet
June 2022Once again, it is the world’s poor who risk becoming collateral damage. As war thunders on in Ukraine, the most deprived people in the Middle East,…