Tag: global affairs
-
When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo got to China, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, he saw many wonders—gunpowder and coal and eyeglasses and porcelain. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money more ›
-
The densely populated community of Bukom in Ghana’s capital is inhabited by fishermen. But fishing is not Bukom’s only export. The local gym is also cultivating some of Africa’s finest… more ›
-
For two years we knew of the possibility that the Donald Trump campaign cheated in the 2016 election. https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/on-the-mueller-report-vol-1/ more ›
-
The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can’t take in what they are. In the… more ›
-
Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities. It is usually quiet, cut off from the bustle of the commercial and cultural hub. https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/fun-street-drug-afghanistan-190721101125139.html more ›
-
Join Marty as he sits down with Ben Hunt (with a guest appearance from James O’Beirne) to discuss some of the running themes from Epsilon Theory, how they relate to… more ›
-
Identify the paradigm you’re in, examine if and how it is unsustainable, and visualize how the paradigm shift will transpire when that which is unsustainable stops. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/paradigm-shifts-ray-dalio more ›
-
TOM LINTON, chief procurement and supply-chain officer at Flex, an American contract-manufacturing giant, has his finger on The Pulse. That is the name of his firm’s whizzy command centre in… more ›
-
The popularity of these sorts of projects is not just a curious coincidence. Their language, the examples they refer to, and the process of their development all show an obvious… more ›
-
On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at… more ›