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A ‘post- American’ world is perhaps closer than we think. Will this involve China challenging the dollar’s exorbitant privilege? Yes. Conspiracy theories, however, look set [...]

The post-pandemic world will not be going back to a pre-COVID ‘normal’ – whatever that was. Some argue it might see the return of inflation. [...]

What happened on Capitol Hill was shocking but not as surprising as it might have seemed.  Checkout other ‘expected surprises’ for 2021.  The real threat [...]

Longer-term returns could be a better investment objective in the future. More patience could have improved the West’s response to the pandemic. New accounting standards [...]

Dani Rodrik, Tackling Inequality from the Middle (Project Syndicate, December 10, 2019) The rise of populist movements and street protests around the world has made [...]

We can learn something from the trees: it’s not only the fittest that thrive – knowing how to co-operate is also key to survival. Low-interest [...]

A bipolar world is not inevitable – there may be an advantageous ‘quadripolar’ alternative. Can democracy be rescued from the grip of Big Tech? Progress [...]

What fixing economic inequality might look like in the OECD. In post-pandemic Asia government is likely to be ‘bigger’. Feeding on all political trends global [...]

Saving lives is the only sure way to buoy up the economy, but don’t expect it to be quite the same as pre-COVID. We will [...]

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It will take more than a Democratic win to stop the rot in US democracy. Why impact investing is now mainstream. All civilizations (especially complex [...]

Long term global recession is inevitable – the global policy needed best to cope with it is less so. Can European foreign policy learn to [...]

The ‘health’ of the global economy will be subject to its own form of long Covid while geopolitics tops the business agenda. In a world [...]

Inequality is a hotter subject than ever. Burgeoning creativity in all its guises can be a source of optimism – especially when applied to effective [...]

Public recovery policy should be contingent to public interest, perhaps feeding into a circular bio-economy. Chinese pork: where AI meets agriculture. Good negotiations mean saving [...]

Plutocracy is the greatest challenge for US democracy, together with the economic threat of a collapsing dollar. Climate change supersedes the pandemic in countries like [...]

Ominous rumblings regarding US election – here and elsewhere, social media have a lot to answer for. With the right policies, we might emerge from [...]

Some optimism concerning net-zero and some possible COVID silver-linings. But, in the US, grim predictions of social unrest and the prospect of ever-rising tension with [...]

Walking more and breathing better are an effective, accessible, and democratic individual response to better cope with some of the effects of the pandemic. Beware [...]

As we begin to recognize that COVID-19 is everyone’s problem, it’s increasingly important to identify what de-marks a successful nation – learning from others is [...]

For fear of failure to avoid it, armed conflict between the US and China should no longer be considered as unthinkable. Concentrated efforts for cleaner [...]

The pandemic induced economic downturn equates to a depression by any other name. Advanced AI makes possible all-seeing surveillance systems for China and beyond. Germany [...]

Going forward: putting nature first is not only an environmental necessity but also sound economics. We could be looking at a less urbanised world where [...]

The Great Reset: how to get it right in a post-Covid-19 world. Will China really be more mercantile than colonial? Can Silicon Valley survive without [...]

Narrative economics can help explain the current stock market enigma. Pandemic experts in the US play second fiddle to politics despite emerging evidence of more [...]

China poised for pre-eminence while the West‘s ‘precariat’ is seeking a voice. A COVID contagion pattern is emerging. Weak ties can be a source of [...]

No V in sight for the global economy. Societal despair in the US partly due to a health system sold out to rent-seekers. Perhaps telemedicine [...]

Some corona crisis lessons so far: execution, not ideas, make the difference; China is no longer passive in its positioning for power; activism’s coming of [...]

Will current outrage over racism, at last, give rise to improved justice? Let’s dare to be optimistic. To avoid a second wave of infection the [...]

How we treat the soil could save the Earth. Can Singapore avoid being caught in the fallout from US-China rivalries and emerge as a vital [...]

This article is behind a paywall, but it makes such a critical point that we decided to include it nonetheless (if you do not subscribe [...]

Carmen Reinhart, the Harvard professor who’s just been named chief economist at the World Bank explains why the COVID-born financial crisis will last until the [...]

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “I would say in a four to five-year timeframe we could be looking at controlling this (the coronavirus).” – Soumya Swaminathan, WHO’s [...]

The President of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Australian PM explains why both China and the US are likely to emerge from this [...]

Gloomy but true! Covid-19 comes at a time when it conflates with ten existing diverse risks that threaten “to fuel a perfect storm that sweeps [...]

This is a great (albeit long – 20 min+) read to make sense of the overabundant information about Covid-19. QUOTE OF THE WEEK “It can [...]

Ed Yong, Our Pandemic Summer (The Atlantic, April 14, 2020) The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when countries reopen, and this article explains [...]

The cluster effect: how social gatherings were rocket fuel for coronavirus (The Guardian, April 9, 2020) This article explains how social gatherings of different sorts [...]