by editor | Sep 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
The Chinese government’s deepening paranoia about the protests in Hong Kong, which Beijing blames on meddling by outside powers (read: the U.S.), is unlikely to be relieved by the appearance of strengthening ties between Hong Kong’s...
by editor | Sep 26, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Rebecca Christie and Mathew Heim, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The European Union, the world’s largest consumer market, needs a clearer vision for how it wants to manage competition and state subsidies affecting European markets and...
by editor | Sep 25, 2019 | Top Page Links, Weekly Update
Like it or not, space is already being militarized For those of us old enough to remember the Cold War — ah, simpler times, when all we had to worry about was the horrifyingly real possibility of nuclear annihilation at any moment without warning — the...
by editor | Sep 24, 2019 | Top Page Links
The rise of fracking has turned the U.S. into an oil exporter and raises the possibility of total energy independence, something unthinkable two decades ago. However the potential for supplying all its own fossil fuel demand will not magically...
by editor | Sep 24, 2019 | Top Page Links
While monetary “hawks” tend to reject any further monetary easing from the European Central Bank like the plague, doveish types are afraid that the ECB’s latest round of easing didn’t go far enough, and may have come too...
by editor | Sep 24, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Mercedes Colombres, Media Director, Libertad y Progreso (original) Economist Aldo Abram, the invited speaker for an exclusive breakfast for members of Libertad y Progreso, hosted at the Feirs Park Hotel with support from the Naumann...