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NYC Deep State Government Plays Politics While Subway Riders Suffer
Like Nero during the fall of the Roman Empire, NYC's political Deep State plays the proverbial fiddle, bickering and infighting, while the People dependent...
The inconvenient truth about “Faceless Eurocrats”
Faceless Eurocrats denying EU member states their rightful sovereignty are the bête noir of Eurosceptics across the continent, a major factor in both the...
Moving Away From GDP: Suggestions for Metrics to Assess Economic Performance
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is, most certainly, an important yardstick for the economic performance of a country. Economists, policy makers, and central banks use...
Where Does the Global Remittance Industry Stand?
The need to transfer funds across borders has risen considerably over the last few decades. Scores of businesses pay suppliers and employees from other...
Russia and Global Forecasting: Getting Past Melodrama Diplomacy
The President of the E. M. Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO), Academician...
The Gulf crisis: Qatar’s 2022 World Cup moves into the firing line
A French investigation into possible corruption in business deals related to Qatar’s winning of World Cup hosting rights moved the 2022 tournament a step...
Africa and the World Bank: Why it’s Not Too Late
African countries are in a developmental conundrum; they have seen economic reversals in the wake (and arguably because) of the World Bank and yet...
Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea
As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear and ballistic missiles...
Macron’s global strategy in Africa and in the European Union
Both Chirac and Sarkozy had five minutes to leave power, while François Hollande could even have five months to do so. In fact, at...
Only U.S. Deep State Oligarchs Want World War III
As long as the Deep State Oligarchs can continue to use the Citizens United supreme court case to bribe the entire U.S. Congress and...