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Financial Regulation: Facing a Global Challenge

May 13, 2011
Without global interventions, the outcome of the recent global crisis could have been far worse. Finance is an essential tool for unlocking capital, economic development and innovation, and writing for ParisTech Review, André Lévy-Lang outlines features and weaknesses of modern finance and its...

Hill Deposition

November 9, 2019
Fiona Hill oversaw interactions pertaining to Europe and NATO as well as Russia, Turkey and Ukrainewas with the National Security Council as. a senior director with the National Security Counci since early 2017. During that time, she observed sloppy security practices, manipulations, internal score...

Hong Kong: Global or Chinese Capital?

October 25, 2018
Hong Kong’s reputation as an international financial powerhouse thrived under democratic principles of free speech, free assembly and free trade. But Beijing leaders would prefer speedier integration with China and what they regard as more patriotism. “Tension between these perceptions has long...

The Invisible Hand of Globalization

January 3, 2008
Despite exponentially-advancing understanding of economic forces over the 20th century, Adam Smith’s invisible hand continues to elude. In his recently published book none other than former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan essentially throws up his hands. Every time a financial...

McClatchy: FBI Checks If Russian Money Went to NRA

January 19, 2018
A counterintelligence investigation is underway by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on whether a banker – Alexander Torshin, deputy governor for the Russian central bank – secretly transferred funds to the National Rifle Association to help the Donald Trump presidential election campaign. “It...

The Wall Street Journal: China Is Winning the Global Race to Control Batteries

February 15, 2018
China listed electric vehicles as one of seven strategic priorities in 2011 and now dominates the markets for batteries from mining cobalt in Africa to production. More than half of the world’s cobalt is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a Wall Street Journal articles describes small-...

Technocratic Traps of Policy Reforms

July 10, 2018
Rejecting the expert opinions of educated specialists in trade, finance and other areas is tantamount to killing geese that lay golden eggs. “Nations that hope to contribute and compete in the modern world require skilled professionals, especially in complex areas such as taxation and banking, and...

Chinese Money in Arab World Projects: Economist

June 4, 2019
This decade has witnessed a strengthening of economic ties between a number of Middle Eastern countries and China. While previously the Middle East was seen primarily as a petrol station, explains the Economist, with nearly half of China’s oil supplied by Arab countries and Iran, there was little...
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