The use and abuse of data by Facebook and other tech companies are finally garnering the official attention they deserve. With personal data becoming the world’s…
Technology
Graciousness to most of us looks easy, but of course it is not. Do please not mistake mere manners for graciousness. Manners are rules. But graciousness…
Not too long ago, the “gig economy” looked as if it just might be the future of work in America – followed by the rest of…
With the daily headlines about the US and China imposing tariffs on merchandise in each other’s markets, you might get the impression that all that matters…
Whether it happens now or in 28 years, when the “one country, two systems” framework is set to expire, millions of people in Hong Kong want…
If you want to understand the developing trade – and currency war with China, the first thing you need to realize is that nothing Donald Trump…
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…