19 posts
First Europe, then… the world?
A few vague thoughts towards predicting a new global geopolitics...
Nov. 15th Global Financial Summit: What kinds of cooperation and among whom?
“As European leaders gather next week in a crescendo of meetings ahead of a Nov. 15 global financial summit – a "Bretton Woods II" in Washington – they face an old...
Outside looking in
White House announcement today – Today, the President is inviting the leaders of the Group of 20 countries to a summit in the Washington, D.C. area, on November 15 to discuss financial markets and the global economy. The G-20 finance process, w...
Sarkozy’s Fund of Bad Advice
By common consent, Nicolas Sarkozy has had, for the most part, a good financial crisis. But he slipped up this week when he suggested European Union member-states should create their own sovereign wealth funds to invest in European companies an...
Radical Plans
Sarkozy has unveiled a new plan to combat the coming economic recession. It seams (German) he wants to nationalize a significant amount of industries, which can be bought right now for a bargain price. This should be done to avoid loosing control of...
Watson - Financial crisis does not mark end to free and open markets
As French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivered a passionate defence of more European unity in Strasbourg today in the face of the multiple fronts of a financial crisis, global warming and Russian military incursion into Georgia; local Liberal Democrat...
A New World Order?
By Christopher McGuiness The United States’ status as a modern empire has long been a favourite subject of political writers. One example of such writing is a recent Observer editorial authored by LSE professor emeritus John Gray, who predict...
Globalisation RIP ?
What follows is a set of comments and reports on the collapse of the Doha...
The War for Wealth - Is Globalisation destroying the West?
Globalisation. The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade. Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most heated debates of our lifetime: is globalisation a force for good, or is it a policy that is sure to destroy the economic foundation of t...
