Who are the World’s Biggest Military Spenders, Really?
By Dan Steinbock
The conventional narrative is that the world is threatened by the assertive China and Russia. The inconvenient narrative is that China...
Slavehood 2017
By Peter Koenig
We thought slavehood has been abolished a long time ago. Peter Koenig begs to disagree as he describes how we live in...
The Philippine Peso Squeeze
By Dan Steinbock
In the first quarter, the Philippine peso depreciated against the US dollar. Internationally, this was attributed to President Duterte’s policies. In...
The Trump-Xi Summit Paves the Way to New Realism in US-Chinese Trade
By Dan Steinbock
Despite preliminary pessimism, the Trump-Xi Summit showed greater trade pragmatism than initially expected, even though it was overshadowed by a raw...
Brexit and the Banks: Fight or Flight?
By Barbara Casu
This article discusses the key implications of Brexit for the UK financial services industry, looking at the differences between: membership vs. access;...
Return of Sovereign France
By Dan Steinbock
In France, President Hollande’s utter failure to foster broad consensus for structural reforms has paved the way for a contested election. While...
Why Trump’s Anti-Globalisation Agenda is Bad for America
By Devashish Mitra
The Trump administration has been capitalising on the “dark-side of globalisation”. However, Devashish Mitra advances that an anti-globalisation campaign might not be...
What Does the New US Administration Mean for Business?
By William Hobbs, Head of Investment Strategy, UK and Europe, Barclays
How much of this new US administration’s often fluid and sometimes contradictory agenda should we...
Tourism and the Modern World
By Eric G. E. Zuelow
Tourism is among the largest industries in the world and many people assume that humans engaged in leisure travel from...
Changing Tides in International Trade
By Victor Andres Manhit
Although trade has played an important role in advancing economic growth, it has since lost its dynamism. Asian economies, however, have...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
