Articles

14.11.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When the world is collapsing all around us, in a crisis that is now genuinely global, the very least we can expect of our governments is that they should meet...

01.11.08 Publication: Financial Times

Review by Bill Emmott The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the WorldBy Niall FergusonAllen Lane £25, 464 pagesFT Bookshop price: £20 If, in...

01.11.08 Publication: Ushio

Will food products made in China ever be safe? All countries have occasional scandals concerning badly made or deliberately adulterated foods and other...

30.10.08 Publication: The Independent

There is a tendency, particularly in Washington and occasionally in Western Europe, to think of the rise of Japan, China and India as being in some way a...

19.10.08 Publication: Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101701960.html Historians identify changes in eras in terms of decades, even...

07.10.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This was supposed to be an American crisis, based on American subprime mortgages and American-style capitalism. So why do European banks seem now to be...

04.10.08 Publication: Daily Telegraph

Bail-out: Can Japan offer the solution to the financial crisis? Japan’s 1990s banking crisis offers the solution to our woes, says Bill Emmott....

01.10.08 Publication: Exame

This was supposed to be an American crisis, based on American subprime mortgages and American-style capitalism. So why do European banks seem now to be...

01.10.08 Publication: Ushio

America, it is often said, is the land of free markets, of unregulated capitalism, of what detractors call “market fundamentalism”. The financial crisis,...

23.09.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The tragedy of contaminated baby milk in China is just the latest in a long series of such scandals, all of which follow the same pattern. There is early...

10.09.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The nationalisation by the American government of two huge mortgage-lenders, known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is a piece of unequivocally good news, a ray...

01.09.08 Publication: Ushio

The date that is conventionally chosen to mark the beginning of the so-called “credit crunch” in America and Europe is August 9th 2007. So one year has...

01.09.08 Publication: Exame

Japan is an endlessly frustrating country for all those who wish that the world’s second largest economy would do better. The sudden resignation on September...

31.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

There is a strange inconsistency in the way we treat farmers. If they grow wheat, or sugar beet we pay them subsidies, sometimes to produce more, sometimes to...

15.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This global economic situation continues to make a nonsense of all predictions. One year ago, when the “credit crunch” based on American subprime mortgages...

12.08.08 Publication: The Guardian

What, pray, is all the fuss about? Since August 9th last year, we have (according to the sages at the IMF) been in “the worst financial crisis since the...

11.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

So, a report by the French tax and social affairs inspectorate wants to promote higher taxes on foods that are “too rich, too sweet, too salty and are not...

02.08.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Technology plays a part in virtually every sport. We know there have to be rules about what materials are used in tennis rackets and golf clubs, about what...

01.08.08 Publication: Exame

Right now, with billions glued to their TV sets watching the Olympics, few would doubt that this year most of the world’s attention has been on China. Thanks...

29.07.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This week, on the shores of Lake Geneva, a meeting is taking place that could determine whether globalization continues to make progress or whether...

28.07.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun

This week, on the shores of Lake Geneva, a meeting has been taking place that could determine whether globalization continues to make progress or whether...

15.07.08 Publication: Newsday

It is always right to look at agreements made at the annual Group of Eight summits of rich-country leaders with skepticism. These summits are little more than...

11.07.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Robert Hughes, the great Australian art critic and essayist, called it “The shock of the new” in his justly celebrated book and television series on...

01.07.08 Publication: Exame

It is always right to look at agreements made at the annual Group of Eight (G8) summits of rich-country leaders with skepticism. These summits are little more...