Tag: globalization

• The first modern pandemic

  April 26, 2020

  This is the full-length version of this post. You can read the condensed version, which appeared as an opinion article in the Washington Post, here. The coronavirus pandemic pits all… more ›

• Chapter 2: Money, Credit, and Debt

  April 25, 2020

  Note: To make this an easier and shorter article to read, I tried to convey the most important points in simple language and bolded them, so you can get the… more ›

• What coronavirus means for the global economy

  April 9, 2020

  “I’m a capitalist. I believe in the system. I believe you can increase the size of the pie and you could divide it well,” says Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater… more ›

• Coronavirus: 100 days that changed the world

  April 8, 2020

  Skip to main content By 8 April 2020 It started with a warning. It turned into a pandemic that has transformed life as we know it A turbulent decade had… more ›

• Revealed: the great European refugee scandal

  March 12, 2020

  Evidence obtained by the Guardian exposes a coordinated and unlawful EU assault on the rights of desperate people trying to cross the Mediterranean by , Apostolis Fotiadis and Zach Campbell… more ›

• Arrival of the Babel Fish

  July 4, 2019

  In the very near future, maybe in ten years, we’ll have earpods that will do real time language translation. Someone speaks Greek to you, and with the slightest delay, you’ll… more ›

• The Self-Destruction of American Power

  June 16, 2019

  Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of… more ›

• Our changing climate and the road ahead

  June 2, 2019

  Following a recent members-only briefing with inventor Bill Gross on how our sustainable future will be powered by renewable energy and innovations in energy storage, I was curious to delve… more ›

• Africa’s Pulse, No. 19, April 2019 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

  April 28, 2019

  https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31499 more ›

• The End of a Liberal International Order That Never Existed

  April 28, 2019

  By Michael N. Barnett Professor of International Affairs and Political Science Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University barnett@gwu.edu https://theglobal.blog/2019/04/16/the-end-of-a-liberal-international-order-that-never-existed/ more ›