international analysis and commentary

The power of one

The world’s epicenter, its largest economy and  geopolitical superpower, is burning from east to west, and from north to south. The fire is engulfing all of its major cities - to varying degrees but with no exception - with protests varying…

From golden parachutes to golden shares

The progress of globalization and liberalization that characterized the past three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has stopped in its tracks - gradually and then suddenly in the words of Ernest Hemingway – with the present…