North America

OECD: Time, Trade and Trade Facilitation

Time is money and a lot of money and opportunities are being lost due to painstakingly long customs procedures, waiting…

11 years ago

Jesse Lauriston Livermore: The Boy Plunger

Playing the stock market in order to make a bundle is not a pursuit deemed suitable for the faint of…

11 years ago

Fata Morgana in the High Alps: Musings on Davos

While currencies crumbled in emerging markets ranging from Turkey to Argentina, the world’s mostly self-appointed leaders and assorted hangers-on gathered…

11 years ago

Warren Buffett: Common Sense Billionaire – Please Tax Me More

The wizard, oracle or sage from Omaha: The world’s richest inhabitant, Warren Buffett (83), has been awarded a great many…

11 years ago

US Political Strife Threatens to Derail IMF Reforms

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been reduced to a bargaining chip. Its request for $63bn (£38.3bn) in additional funding…

11 years ago

Lowell McAdam – A Nimble Behemoth Enters the Golden Age of Innovation

Big numbers don’t scare Lowell McAdam. The Verizon CEO, sitting atop the largest US telecom provider, in September raised almost…

11 years ago

Global Banking Alliance for Women – GBA: Banking the Female Economy

Inez Murray is the CEO of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, a global consortium of financial institutions driving women’s…

11 years ago

Stephen Colbert: Laughing All the Way to the Top – Comedian Airs Truth through Jest

Powerful, Authoritative, Patriot, Honourable, Independent, Courageous, Originalist, Strong, Kingmaker, All-Beef, Influential, Sponsored, Star-Spangled, National Treasure, Self-Evident, Ameriwill!, Principled, Indivisible, Constitutional,…

11 years ago

Sudan Cabinet Shake-Up Boosts Conciliation Efforts

Former US special envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman has made yet another appeal for the resumption of the political dialogue…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Walking on the Wild Side – Monetary Policy and Prudential Regulation

Global financial integration and the linkages between the financial and the real sides of economies are sources of huge policy…

11 years ago