Let me be pretty blunt in this commentary. Growth is stalling almost everywhere due to the gargantuan amount of debt (public and private). Central banks have been exploiting their balance […]

Thomas Mann was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. His novel titled Buddenbrooks has been credited for such success. The novel chronicles the decline of a […]

What is a koilogastor market? One interpretation could be a market characterized by gluttony and voracity. Another could be a market whose womb is empty while declaring that a baby […]

The events that shaped last week – and potentially the weeks and months, if not years to come – had both geoeconomics and geopolitical dimensions. In situations like these, the […]

Last Thursday, Mario Draghi the President of the ECB indicated willingness to start again his “asset purchases program”, baptized this time with the title of OMT (outright monetary transactions) a.k.a. […]

It has been almost three years now since the rumors started that something was rotten with the Greek public finances. Excesses have been documented. Wasteful expenditures, inefficiencies, and corrupt practices […]

Over the last few weeks, we have argued that we are entering a watershed moment in economic and financial history, when significant decisions have to be made, since kicking the […]

There are good chances that the EU – as we know it – may be headed towards its last tango, made in Berlin. It seems that the EU has lost […]

It seems that the regime in Syria is going through its last phase. The emerging civil war may wrap up the first phase of the face-lift in the Middle East. […]

I am of the opinion that one of the many things we should always remember from the great teacher is that the “unexamined life is not worth living”. It seems […]