Uber: Pressure to Perform
By John Colley
News that Uber’s 2018 third quarter losses have widened to $1.1 Bn with slowing sales growth, are signs of a much more...
Japan’s “Comfort Women” Asian Protests and Imperial Japan’s Sexual Slavery
By Dan Steinbock
Recently, another Philippine statue commemorating Filipino “comfort women” has been removed. As international pressure is rising, it is time for Abe...
Global Economic Outlook after Trump-Xi Timeout
By Dan Steinbock
As many hoped, the highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting in the Buenos Aires G20 Summit resulted in a truce. The devil is in...
Capitalism, Globalisation and Inequality
By Kalim Siddiqui
With rising global inequality and environmental crises, capitalism is unable to resolve the crises and thus has become an obsolete social system...
The Predicted 2020 Global Recession
By Graham Vanbergen
There has been much speculation recently in the press about the impending global crash and the inevitable fallout it will cause. While...
Behind Path Withdrawal: User-Generated Content, Fad-Trend-Megatrend and Individualist-Collectivist Behavior
By Jaya Addin Linando
When Path announced that it will close down its operation, many internet users were shocked as Path was one of the...
The United States of America – the Real Reason Why They Are Never Winning...
By Peter Koenig
This essay is inspired by Professor James Petras’ article, describing that the US never wins wars despite trillions of investments in her war...
The Economic Costs of Corruption in Philippines
By Dan Steinbock
The recent $200 million customs debacle may be just a tip of the iceberg. Due to illicit financial flows, Philippines has...
Brazil – Bolsonaro Towards a Military Dictatorship – Worse than 80 Years Ago
By Peter Koenig
One week before the second round of voting in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, the extreme right-wing candidate from the Social Liberal Party (PSL),...
Khashoggi versus 50,000 Slaughtered Yemeni Children
By Peter Koenig
The European Parliament has asked last October 25 for an immediate embargo on the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia, hence sanctioning...
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...
