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George Ryan: A Flawed Man Taking on a Flawed System

George Ryan is a hero tainted by scandal. As governor of Illinois, Mr Ryan followed in the wake of two…

10 years ago

From Somalia to the United States – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Big Questions of Our Time Barely twenty years ago, Ayaan Hirsi Ali aged 23 at the time, arrived in…

10 years ago

UN Reports FDI Hit $1.4 Trillion in 2013, Upward Trend to Continue

Global foreign direct investment is up and expected to rise over the next three years, driven mainly by stronger economies…

11 years ago

Measuring Wealth to Track Sustainability

The new edition of the World Bank's Little Green Data Book, released on World Environment Day 2014, includes a new…

11 years ago

Paul Krugman: A Plea for a Return to Basics in Finance

Author of no less than twenty books, over 200 scholarly essays in peer-reviewed academic journals and more than 750 articles…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Macroeconomics and Stagnation – Keynesian-Schumpeterian Wars

Policy makers in the advanced economies at the core of the global financial crisis can make the claim that they…

11 years ago

Robert Shiller: Making Sense of the Irrationality of Markets

The question of what motivates a trader to buy or sell shares at any particular moment is probably as old…

11 years ago

Inez Murray: Women in Business – Bankers Advised to Take Note

Getting banks to notice women is quite the challenge. Whereas research consistently shows that women are exceedingly good at managing…

11 years ago

Bitcoin – Chronicle of a Failure Foretold

Transaction malleability – a fraudulent, though most lucrative, way of receiving money without anyone actually sending it – is driving…

11 years ago

Barry E. Silbert: Going Out on a Limb, Reinventing Capital Markets

SecondMarket was set up in 2004 and has since expanded into multibillion dollar trading platform with well over 53,000 registered…

11 years ago