Can Cryptocurrencies Challenge the Dollar’s Global Dominance?
By James A. Fok
The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies in recent years has been viewed by many as a speculative bubble. However, it also reflects...
The Other Pandemic: Misinformation And How Higher Education Can Offer a Remedy
By Micah Sadigh
As we traverse, oftentimes unsuspectingly, into the darkness of an untethered technology of sharing information – seductive, magical, and in one brief...
Smartmatic’s Global Controversies: Follow the Money
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Philippine authorities allege Smartmatic “is compromised.” In the past, the software contractor has been linked with murky controversies and mysterious fortunes....
From vaccine inequality to economic apartheid
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Thanks to the containment failures of Covid-19 and the resultant new variants, coupled with vaccine inequality, global prospects are overshadowed by...
Is military conflict over Taiwan inevitable or is China masking its true economic agenda?
By Andre Wheeler
With much focus on the developments in the increasingly strategic geo-political Indo-Pacific region, current analysis in the West has shifted to the...
Policy Response To Mitigate The Effect Of COVID-19 On Women’s Labor Market Outcomes
By Tea Trumbic and Marie Hyland
On average, women are under-represented in the labor market compared to men. In many countries, the COVID-19 crisis has...
Apple between US China Wars
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
America's most valuable $2 trillion company is no longer immune to US geopolitics. Apple's global success is an anomaly to the...
“I, Bitcoin”: As told to Stephen Castell
By Stephen Castell
Inspired by, and paying homage to, the quintessential 1958 essay on free-market economics, “I, Pencil”, by Leonard Read (https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/), Dr. Stephen Castell...
How the World Press Freedom Index Was Politicized – Long Before the New Cold...
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
For years, the press freedom index by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been widely quoted, even though its methodology is...
Time for America to Modernize the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) – Time...
By Ivor Ichikowitz
Picture this - The tarmac of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi in 2020, where the ground crew of Kenya Airways loads...