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The crisis that started in 2008 has put to the test the ability of central banks to put aside traditional economic wisdom and try their hand at the most unorthodox measures, instead, to prevent economies from slipping into a depression…
Read moreWe live in a country which is aging and losing its population at an alarming rate. In the last 30 years the population fell by 3.5 million people and UN estimates show that by 2050 it will have lost another…
Read moreTen years after the Lehman Brothers collapse a question is on everyone`s lips: can this happen again? The worries around such a possibility are completely justified by the crisis that Ben Bernanke, a former FED Chairman deemed the worst in…
Read moreIn 1997 the well-known CNN journalist and political analyst, Fareed Zakaria wrote a visionary commentary entitled “The rise of the illiberal democracy” which predicted the rise of a new category of leaders: popular autocrats intent on governing without much regard…
Read moreThese comments are designed for those who insist on regularly reassuring us that there are no reasons for concern, that excessively loading the budget with irreversible expenses, such as pensions and wages is sustainable because there is no crisis looming….
Read moreThe other days I discussed with a well-known journalist about the reasons of Viktor Orban`s success in Hungary. My interlocutor was talking admiringly about him because he had understood that Hungary could no longer be underpinned by a foreign direct…
Read moreMy recent participation in an international conference put me on separate occasions in the privileged position of listening to the opinions of two high profile political leaders as well as with the oppportunity to ask questions. Jack Lew was President…
Read moreMy guest this week is Ms Antonia Colibasanu, a well-known geopolitical analyst with Geopolitical Futures where she is the Chief Operating Officer, a capacity in which she works closely with the founder of the organization, the celebrated geopolitical forecaster and…
Read moreFaced with many problems which question its very existence, the EU is trying to re-invent itself. The organization is clearly at a crossroad which is harder to overcome as the diversity of its members` priorities makes a consensus on the…
Read moreWe are living in an increasingly sophisticated, agitated, unstable and unpredictable world. And at the end of the day, increasingly tense. There is palpable tension on several levels: social, political, economic, geostrategic, to name a few. The tectonic plates of…
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