Articles

22.06.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

If globalisation means that we share problems with more and more other countries as well as create opportunities for trade and investment, then proof of that...

16.06.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun

Now that the Democrats have at last chosen their presidential candidate, the real guessing game can begin: what might the choice between Barack Obama and John...

11.06.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

America should be flattered. Despite all the talk of its decline, in the aftermath of the Iraq war and now the subprime mortgage crisis, and despite claims in...

01.06.08 Publication: Exame

In what feels like the blink of an eye, the emerging markets have been transformed from being global agents of deflation to becoming the sources of a new wave...

28.05.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

When two natural disasters occur side by side, in neighbouring countries, we are inevitably tempted to compare them. That is exactly what has happened with the...

20.05.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Those of us who are in favour of globalisation, who celebrate the way it has raised living standards and reduced poverty around the world, are forever worrying...

04.05.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This was the beginning of the end for Labour Party rule in Britain. In theory, Labour’s prime minister, Gordon Brown, has up to two years to recover from the...

01.05.08 Publication: Exame

THIS is the era of books about the rise of new eras. The debacle in Iraq, the decline in America’s worldwide reputation under George Bush, the credit crunch,...

21.04.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Commentators and scholars of Japan have for many years been attracted by strange parallels between the politics of that country on the far edge of Asia and of...

17.04.08 Publication: Daily Telegraph

It is remarkable how rapidly the world has moved from worrying about deflation to worrying about inflation; from cheer to despondency about the reduction of...

14.04.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

An election campaign is a piece of pure political theatre, whether it is interminably long, as in America’s two-year races, rather short as in Britain’s...

01.04.08 Publication: Exame

In the first edition of this column in January 2007, it was noted that having enjoyed a boom of about five years, commodity prices had begun to fall. Prices of...

01.04.08 Publication: Ushio

I have been a financial journalist—among other things—for  more than 25 years. Most of the time I have concluded that although finance can seem...

28.03.08 Publication: Washington Post

A little knowledge can be not just dangerous but grossly misleading. That is the right conclusion to draw from the latest, surprisingly reassuring data about...

25.03.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is a debate that will never die. The rescue this week by the Federal Reserve Board of Bear Stearns, America’s fifth-biggest investment bank, and its...

15.03.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

This could prove to be the biggest test of the Chinese government’s ruthlessness since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. The riots this week by Buddhist...

08.03.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Throughout your lifetime, whether you are 25, 40 or (like me) 50 years old, the price of food has been falling, bit by bit, year by year. The only exception to...

01.03.08 Publication: Exame

If you judge economic affairs according to the movements of financial markets, these are dramatic times. The collapse and rescue of Bear Stearns, America’s...

27.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

Music alone will not transform the closed and brutal Asian state of North Korea, nor will it transform the bitter relationship between the North Koreans and...

19.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

The declaration of independence by Kosovo at the weekend, and the resulting split inside the European Union over whether to give official recognition to the...

18.02.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun

If you think back ten years ago, to the East Asian financial crisis that began in Thailand and then spread all over the region, brought down the Suharto...

17.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

It is a good time to be an African. It may not seem all that good, if you look at the violence in Kenya, or the continued slaughter in the Darfur region of...

04.02.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera

For an outsider to comment on Italy’s political crisis feels rather like a neighbour intruding on a family tragedy: tempting, perhaps even desirable, but...

01.02.08 Publication: Exame

It is a good time to be an African. Does that statement surprise you? It might if you look at the violence in Kenya, or the continued slaughter in the Darfur...