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…
Cryptocurrencies
The Business Life Cycle of Central Banks – Central Banks upcoming Digital Currencies (CBDS) against Cryptocurrencies and why that matters
May 2021This year, Bitcoin has mesmerized many investors. Never mind the fact that it has doubled in price, after tripling in 2020; nor that figures such as…
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…
Although mass vaccination campaigns are picking up speed in the West, the end of the Covid-19 pandemic still is not even in sight. For that, the…
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…
A little over 100 years ago, there was a bubble asset that rose and fell wildly over the course of a decade. People who held it…
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…
Melting ice caps, warmer oceans, intense storms, heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires – all these well-documented effects of climate change may seem too remote to…