Articles

28.08.15 Publication: Financial Times

The debate about China’s economy, amid all the noise and drama coming from the bursting of its stock market bubble, is essentially about whether its annual...

22.08.15 Publication: Nikkei Business

What is really happening in China? That is now one of the most important questions for global businesses, which especially includes Japanese exporters and the...

22.08.15 Publication: Nikkei Business

What is really happening in China? That isnow one of the most important questions for global businesses, which especially includes Japanese exporters and the...

15.08.15 Publication: Project Syndicate

Something has gone badly wrong in the emerging economies that were supposed to be shaping, even dominating, the future of the world. The search for culprits is...

27.07.15 Publication: Financial Times

Old Tokyocorrespondents such as myself think of Japan as the country that abolished news, as a place of processes and trends rather than big events. So it...

26.07.15 Publication: La Stampa

Ever since their first contact with Europeans in the 16th century, the Japanese have always seemed hard to understand. The 70th anniversary of one of the worst...

20.07.15 Publication: Financial Times

We are in an interval during the long Greek tragedy, in agap between the wailings of the chorus but still far from the end, so this is a good moment  to...

09.07.15 Publication: Politico

Originally published by Politico There’s only one country that can get Europe out of this mess. But Berlin is balking. Europe—and indeed the...

06.07.15 Publication: Financial Times

What will happen now after Greece’sresounding ‘No’ lies in the hands of fresh negotiations, Greek banking solvency and the nerve of the triumphant...

02.07.15 Publication: La Stampa

Where does Europe go from here, after the Greek referendum on July 5th and its failure to repay the IMF? The answer is that it can go nowhere that is good,...

29.06.15 Publication: Nikkei Business

What do you think is the biggest danger facing Abenomics? My answer is that the biggest danger is that Abenomics’ monetary arrow might succeed too...

20.06.15 Publication: La Stampa

Well, the Greeks have always been famous for their tragedies as well as their theatrical prowess, so we should not be surprised that the long-running play...

15.06.15 Publication: Project Syndicate

Over the past year, relations among East Asia’s three most successful economies – Japan, South Korea, and China – have been slowly but steadily...

15.06.15

Overthe past year, relations among East Asia’s three most successful economies – Japan, South Korea, and China – have been slowly but steadily...

02.06.15 Publication: Financial Times

For a man who likes to give the impression of incessant activity,to be told "pull your finger out" might seem ungrateful. But that is the message given by...

22.05.15 Publication: CAPX

Theclock is now ticking on Britain´s in-out referendum, which looks likely to be held sometime in 2016. So if the pro-EU camp--in which it is presumed...

20.05.15 Publication: June issue, Prospect

Before the 2010 general election, David Cameron lamented what he called “broken Britain,” but quickly dropped the idea once he got into office. Now that...

09.05.15 Publication: La Stampa

Until about midnight on May 7th, two things seemed certain about Britain’s general election: first, that the long election campaign had been very boring and...

09.05.15 Publication: La Stampa

Until about midnight on May 7th,two things seemed certain about Britain’s general election: first, that the long election campaign had been very boring and...

08.05.15 Publication: L´espresso

Fasten your safety belts. Europe is headingfor not just one crisis but two, both of which could lead to disaster, disintegration and the collapse of the whole...

03.05.15 Publication: La Stampa

When Britons wake up next Friday morning, May 8th, they will be presented with a strange and confusing political picture when the results of their general...

03.05.15 Publication: La Stampa

When Britons wake up next Friday morning,May 8th, they will be presented with a strange and confusing political picture when the results of their general...

24.04.15 Publication: Financial Times

The Coalition Effect 2010-2015, edited by Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn,Cambridge University Press, RRP£18.99, 642 pagesMr Osborne’s Economic Experiment:...

21.04.15 Publication: La Stampa

It may seem heartless to describe the tragedy of the migrants’ ship as symbolic, since the bodies and the deaths are so real. Nevertheless, to this British...