Risking its Position of Saver of Last Resort
(B) According to the Economist, the US only known instance of a technical default occurred in 1979 when the US Treasury failed to redeem $122 million of Treasury bills on […]
Der Schauspieldirektor What do We have Left from the Previous Decade To Address in the New Decade
(B) If the XX century was the one of globalization, the XXI century will have to be the one of sustainability. The first decade of this new century has been […]
A New Disruptive Technology Signals Market Value Destruction and Creation
(B) Someone asked me a few days ago the following question: who is the most threatening competitor to Microsoft? Without thinking, I answered Google! Wrong answer, I was told, it […]
What Will it Take for Europe to Wake Up One Day
(B) Europeans enjoy some of the best social programs in the world, from the highest number of paid vacation days, the shortest number of hours worked per week, early retirements, […]
The Public Debts of the Developed Nations Could Well Lead to the Next Financial Crisis
(B) For the present academic year, some of the staff and faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, one of the most prestigious universities of the US, are on […]
Our Journey to a Sustainable Economic Development for 2010 and Beyond
(B) If every citizen, of every country on our planet, were to consume like an American citizen today, the world would need 5.4 Earths to sustain us! It takes today […]
Haiti Afghanistan and Darfur Why We Must Eradicate Global Poverty
(E) Watching the painful images of human losses from the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I cannot stop imagining how San Francisco will look like after the next big “ONE” […]
The Road to an Unsustainable Economic Development for 2010 and Beyond
(B) Rising world population, ever growing demands of goods and services, destruction of the earth ecosystems and resources and climate change are the four major challenges for our global human […]
Too Big to Fail
(B) Are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, General Motors, California, the US Federal Government or the G-7 nations Too Big to Fail (TBTF)? Oops, it looks like the list of […]
The Collapse of the US Financial System
(B) The present crisis of the US financial system that raised its peak with Bear Stearns’ collapse last week has its roots in the US addiction to put too much […]
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