Articles
Does the economy determine elections?
01.02.08 Publication: Ushio
It has become conventional to say that most general elections are won or lost on economic issues, for those are the day-to-day matters that affect more voters...
Read moreECB – No Interest Cuts For Now
28.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera
For central bankers these days, it is a matter of pride to be able to stand up and ignore pressure from two sorts of directions: pressure from politicians, who...
Read moreWe must not ignore the wild gyrations of Asian traders
25.01.08 Publication: The Guardian
It is so nice when a consensus forms among the economic commentators. There is going to be a recession in America, the pack says, and probably in Britain too,...
Read moreTata´s Nano car and India´s arrival
19.01.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Lakes full of ink have been spilled about the unveiling in India on January 10th by Tata Motors of its new, super-cheap car. Many have pondered whether the...
Read moreIndia arrives as a manufacturing superpower
15.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera
Lakes full of ink have been spilled about the unveiling in India on January 10th by Tata Motors of its new, super-cheap car. People have pondered whether the...
Read moreBetting on America´s election
05.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera
It is a little comical to make judgments about who will be the next president of the United States on the basis of voting by just a few hundred thousand...
Read moreHopes for America´s election
02.01.08 Publication: Corriere della Sera
With voting due to begin in the Iowa caucus on January 3rd, followed swiftly by the New Hampshire primary five days later, events in America’s presidential...
Read moreMuch more than China
01.01.08 Publication: The Economist
"Asia is one." When the Beijing Olympics are transfixing the world, it will seem as if that sentence is wrong and that Asia is simply China. Other countries...
Read moreEurope´s difficult year ahead
01.01.08 Publication: Ushio
Europeans like to compare themselves with Americans. That is perhaps inevitable given our shared history and cultural origins. For the past decade, however,...
Read moreDon´t despair about the dollar
01.01.08 Publication: Exame
One of the most famous sayings about investment came from one of the founders of the Rothschild banking family, Baron Nathan Rothschild. In the early 19th...
Read moreThe coming change in China
01.01.08 Publication: Voice
The momentum behind China’s economic and political rise is impressive. It brings to mind the phrase "shock and awe" that was commonly used by American...
Read moreMinimum wages in Germany and Japan
26.12.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Politics and economics often pull in different directions. In the world’s third biggest economy, Germany, a policy is being debated intensely that makes...
Read moreAlitalia should go to Air France-KLM
18.12.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera
When the board of Alitalia meets today to consider the competing acquisition proposals from Air France-KLM and Air One, the air will be filled with distracting...
Read moreAsia´s century and its implications
01.12.07 Publication: Exame
When the idea first came up, in the 1970s and 1980s, it was labelled as "the Pacific century", as it was assumed that the 21st century would be dominated by...
Read moreThe difficulty with dictatorship
01.12.07 Publication: Ushio
During the Cold War, it became a sort of joke to look at the use of the words "democratic" or "peoples" in the names of countries: the joke was that if the...
Read moreThe dollar near its trough
26.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera
The most famous, if rather callous, saying about investment is attributed to Baron Nathan Rothschild, one of the founders of the great banking dynasty. He...
Read moreThe importance of Pakistan to Japan
18.11.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
In 1938 the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, justified his attempt to ignore Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the central European state of...
Read moreJustice and the death penalty
16.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera
The resolution promoted by Italy and passed by the human rights committee of the United Nations General Assembly, calling for the abolition of the death...
Read moreChina, India and $100 oil
12.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera
The continued climb of the oil price towards $100 a barrel is grabbing attention both because of its symbolic importance and because of fears that it will...
Read moreThe failure of General Musharraf
04.11.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera
General Pervez Musharraf’s coup in Pakistan is the strangest of coups: it is in effect a coup against himself. When he seized power in 1999 from the...
Read moreThe real meaning of the credit crunch
01.11.07 Publication: Exame
When finance ministers, bankers, central bankers and economists gathered in their thousands for the annual meetings of the World Bank and International...
Read moreSlow wine, in the heart of Europe
01.11.07 Publication: Ushio
Twenty years ago, some Italian food producers started a wonderful campaign group called the Slow Food Movement. The idea was to start a reaction against the...
Read moreWhat matters at China´s party congress
16.10.07 Publication: Corriere della Sera
When the world’s biggest country, measured by population, which could within 20 years be the world’s biggest economy, holds a meeting of its ruling...
Read moreWhy Fukuda should visit Nanjing
08.10.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
For an outsider to comment about the historical issues between Japan and China feels instinctively awkward—rather like a stranger butting in on a family...
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