The West Must Stand Confident and United Against the Chinese Threat
With great power comes great responsibility. No government on Earth have established a stronger and more totalitarian control over its society than the Chinese...
The Black Swan of 2020
According to the United Nations, Covid-19 has cost the global economy $50 billion in just exports in February alone. A recent Bloomberg estimate sees...
Reimagining History’s Path
In Laurent Binet’s latest alternate history novel, Civilizations, pandemics are used as a device that propel the narrative forward. It is antibodies that allow...
The Other Half
Writing this on my laptop in the comfort of my living room, my challenges in this bizarre age of lockdown have nothing to do...
The Great Lockdown: A Glimpse of a More Sustainable Future?
We all feel (or have felt) frustration at the interruption of our regular work routine, our chosen leisure pursuits, our social round, our holiday...
What are the Geo-Economic Impacts of the Coronavirus Crisis?
Most people have heard of the Black Death, a pandemic that killed a third of Europe’s population in the 14th century, and entire treatises...
Fixing the Eurozone for the Next 50 Years
Covid-19 has exposed the rational dysfunction at the heart of European decision making. It is perfectly rational for Finance Ministers such as Hoekstra (EPP...