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If there is one thing casual observers know about the cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, it is that they are changing and growing very quickly. The Gulf monarchies have overseen one of the most rapid and dynamic urban…

Da Bretton Woods a Savannah Settantacinque anni fa, l’8 marzo del 1946, il lussuoso General Oglethorpe Hotel di Wilmington Island, nei sobborghi di Savannah, in Georgia, ospitava la riunione inaugurale dei Consigli di Amministrazione della…

Yes, she did it again. With the clock ticketing on the last days of her presidency of the Council of the European Union, Angela Merkel managed to pull the rabbit out of the hat as she struck a deal with Hungary and Poland on the €1.8…

Con un’accelerazione sorprendente, le grandi banche centrali hanno iniziato a precisare i contorni di quella che sarà la futura moneta digitale di banca centrale (Central Bank Digital Currency, CBDC). Il 9 ottobre scorso la Bis di Basilea,…

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…