Will Greece go bankrupt?
Published below article more than a year ago that is actually even more relevant today. Martin Feldstein, Harvard professor of economics thinks it will. If it wasn’t for the Euro the current situation...
View ArticleInterconnected for better or for worse?
Am pleased to note that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are likely to lead recovery in the Gulf. Their proactive government support and spending have been instrumental in helping banks maintain relative...
View ArticleEurozone break up – or – Estonia joining in 2011?
It’s make or break for the embattled eurozone. So many of us were surprised to hear that Estonia will join the single currency in January 2011. A minute later a top UK forecasting group announced that...
View ArticleInvestors have lost confidence in politicians – Have you?
The recent inability of US politicians to compromise have lead to US credit rating being downgraded. Add to that European politicians’ inadequate response to the debt crisis in the euro zone and it’s...
View ArticleIs China today doing what the US did yesterday?
When democracies lose economic power democracy itself is weakened. Hu Jintao may be shorter than Obama but China still makes the smartest moves on the geo-political global chess board. This year China,...
View ArticleDo you agree with Merkel that it will take years to solve the Euro crisis?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to implement “a Fiscal Union with strict rules” to address the root causes of the widening financial crisis in Europe. Devote 3 minutes to learn more about her...
View ArticleIs a world without borders possible?
European voters are getting rid of austerity and there is civil unrest from Madrid to Athens. England and Spain are in double-dip recession. Austerity seems to be coming to and end, but is the idea of...
View ArticleSolving the Euro crisis: A federal Europe or parallel currencies?
European Union leaders are now advocating “More Europe” as a solution to the Euro Crisis. Watch Harvard professor Niall Ferguson explain to The World Economic Forum what a more integrated Europe would...
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