There has been a stark shift in global economic thinking on austerity. That was strikingly evident at the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank…
Brexit
Boris Johnson has taken the wrong economic lesson from the crisis – now Britain is facing an economic abyss – from the Covid-19 crisis and Brexit
November 2020Boris Johnson attempted to look beyond the Covid-19 pandemic at the Conservative party conference last month by warning against drawing “the wrong economic conclusion from this…
Middle East
Dear Lebanon – you cannot resolve your massive problems with the same group of people who created them!
November 2020There was a time, not long ago, when Lebanese looked down their noses, or at the least pitied, those wretched refugees from neighbouring Syria who boarded…
China• Europe• Russia• US
All over the World, from the US to Europe to Russia to China the Vaccine Race is on – but a Vaccine will not fix our problem so fast…
November 2020The United States may be within months of a profound turning point in the country’s fight against the coronavirus: the first working vaccine. Demonstrating in less…
US
Weakened democracy is another harm caused by Big Tech and their monopolies – finally the US Department of Justice takes action
November 2020House lawmakers who spent the last 15 months investigating the practices of the world’s largest technology companies have said that Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google had…
Last month, House lawmakers in the US concluded a 16-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook and called for sweeping changes to curb their market…
US President Donald Trump has now made it unmistakably clear in recent weeks – and even more crystal clear at the public night’s debate – that…
A small town in Germany gets a letter form US senators, threatening it with “crushing, legal and economic sanctions”. Professors at Oxford and Princeton tell students…
US
Donald Trump: Running a business requires different skills to those required to steer a nation – Trump failed at both after the latest bombshell about his tax revelations
October 2020The president doesn’t exactly have a sterling reputation for discretion, but if there’s one area where he exhibits a remarkable, vault-like secrecy, it’s the substance of…
Brexit• Coronavirus• Economy• Europe
European Recovery Political Concerns disrupt Economic Imperatives
October 2020Europe was supposedly done with political histrionics. In the face of pandemic, a continent not known for common purpose had put aside long-festering national suspicions to…