False Beliefs In Vaccines

How False Beliefs In Vaccines Follow Coincidences

By Joseph Mazur Statistics can show evidence, but it cannot prove that one thing causes another. Hidden variables can tell us a great deal about...
Apple between US China Wars

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...
Bitcoin

“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...
Petia Dimitrova

Petia Dimitrova: “Innovations give us the necessary energy to change banking”

Interview with Petia Dimitrova, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Management Board of Postbank. What qualities does a bank need in order to succeed...
Press Freedom Index

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...
trickle-down economics

Is this the end of trickle-down economics?

By Graham Vanbergen The global pandemic has changed everything, highlighting the failures of economic policy that has dominated the Western world for the last 50...
driving

Understanding The Most Common Driving Behaviors and Why Avoid Them

Way back in the 1980s and before, most people enjoyed driving. Owning a car was a privilege that not everyone could afford. Your vehicle...

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...

The Business Reinvention of Japan

By Ulrike Schaede, University of California San Diego On February 15, 2021, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index crossed the ¥30,000, for the first time in 31...

A Matter of Intelligence: Interview with Laura Hamilton, Falanx Assynt

It is sometimes said that there is no gain without risk. But just how great is the risk involved in any given business context,...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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