Dear America , Even though we don’t always wish to admit it, your cultural footprint is staggering, impacting us and the rest of the world in many ways. We communicate in English wherever we travel and we all have a romanticised view of the southern accent....
In the recent European Union summit, discussions circulated primarily around hard budget deficit rules and the proposal to introduce a “deficit limit”. For some reason it is generally accepted that government deficit’s and spiralling government debt levels...
The IMF are informing China how to run their banks whilst President Obama is busy telling the Chinese government to devalue their currency faster and start acting like a “grown-up”. Meanwhile, Italy continues to have €1.9 trillion of outstanding debt...
Over the last 18 months this Euro crisis has had its ups and downs, but the story remains the same: Every time Europe takes a step in the right direction it takes several steps in the wrong direction. Yesterday’s impressive Spanish and Italian bond sale...
The move by the government to increase tuition fees is a major blow to generational equality. The baby boomers will once again have the last laugh. As they sit on their lucrative pensions, live in their appreciated homes, and look back at their free degrees-...
Have you ever been out with a friend and received less attention than their bloody smart phone? Whoever seems to be writing on whatsapp or Facebook Chat seems to fit higher in the peaking order than the person sitting in front of the culprit! I will never...
Mr Sarkozy inherited a large and diversified French economy with strong domestic demand and high productivity levels. Mr Sarkozy’s inability to tackle labour market rigidities and his unwarranted spending policy to the financial crisis has caused French...
Dēmokratía or as we know it “the rule of the people” has long been hailed as the political framework backed and supported by politicians and great scholars alike. People have lost limbs and lives in pursue of democracy. Everyone’s voice has an equal weight,...
The IMF has raised concerns relating to the expectation that European Banks will drastically reduce their balance sheets. The fear in short is that banks are expected to tighten credit facilities and off load securities, thereby reducing their balance...
The euphoria that surrounds Tahrir Square has reached new heights, new levels that exceeded those even experienced back in February 2011 when President Mubarak was ousted. Again, the army has chosen to back the people, placing Mohamed Morsi as well as...
At its time of establishment, the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was political driven and not economically driven. A number of economists predicted the EMU's current problems twenty years ago, if only we had listened then... Earlier this week Italy...
Tell Greeks that there is no such thing as bad publicity and they will most likely disagree. A country contributing only 2% of Europe’s GDP is receiving a disproportionately large share of global media financial coverage and unfortunately for all the...
The image of that little boy broke so many – Politicians and regular folk all over the world reflected long and hard after viewing that damning video – a 30 second clip of a still 3 year old boy woke the otherwise silent voice in many. I dedicate this...
