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Global purchasing power

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2, 500 years of international currencies the future of the U.S. dollar as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies are revealed. Recently the US dollar has fallen more than 10 per cent against other major currencies since the beginning of 2025, and this especially has questioned the its future, that how long can it remain the world’s premier currency and should it fall what will replace it? Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction and fraying international alliances. In Money Beyond Borders, Barry Eichengreen, a leading authority on … Continue reading Global purchasing power

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Insider’s guide to boom-and-bust

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Lloyd Blankfein, head of an institution legendary for its culture of success writes a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence. Blankfein is quiet scary smart about people, markets, and life generally, as his 10, 000 Small Businesses idea proved to be a huge winner. During the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Lloyd acted decisively and he tells the story of what happened with unique insights. When Blankfein was attacked as a Wall Street fat cat, he had to smile, thinking of his precarious childhood in the notorious public housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn, and attending … Continue reading Insider’s guide to boom-and-bust

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Murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units

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In December 2020, a deer hunter discovered two dead bodies that had been riddled with bullets and dumped in forested corner of Fort Bragg, one of the dead men, Master Sergeant William “Billy” Lavigne, was a member of Delta Force. The other victim, Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas, was a quartermaster attached to the Special forces who used his proximity to clandestine missions to steal guns and traffic drugs into the United States from abroad, and had written a blackmail letter threatening to expose criminality in the special operations task force in Afghanistan. Seth Harp, an Iraq war veteran and … Continue reading Murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units

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A New Cold War where everyday it grows hotter

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Artic cold war amid melting ice paving way for military led land-grabs for resources. Kenneth R Rosen, in Polar War reveals how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicentre of a new cold war, where a struggle for dominance between the planet’s great powers heralds the next global conflict. “It has been previous administration’s policy that Greenland should be part of the United States” according to Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff on January 5. Since then the White House released a statement saying that  “the president and his team are … Continue reading A New Cold War where everyday it grows hotter

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Self taught social empathy

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Would you predict that a British aristocrat would so energize American antifascist and civil rights struggles that Time magazine would crown her “Queen of Muckrakers”? Jessica Mitford, known as Decca, was brought up by eccentric English family to marry well and reproduce her wealth and privilege, not to advocate for the rights of others. Her beautiful sisters have been subjects of books and movies dedicated to their naughty, glamorous lives. Decca ran away to America to forge a rebel’s life. As this richly researched book details, Decca broke the Mitford mould. Instead of setting for life as a professional Beauty, … Continue reading Self taught social empathy

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Ultimate will power

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Today, Europe is fast changing, polarised world dominated by Chinese- American rivalry.  European Union despite its initial successes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, have failed to implement a strategy for success in the twenty-first century. Britain’s exit from the EU has weakened both sides and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown these shortcomings into sharp relief.  How should states across the continent position themselves in the decades to come? David Marsh investigates Europe’s present crisis, from a march of populism, Franco-German malaise and the breakdown of relations with Putin’s Russia. Fault lines are emerging in the monetary union, while the … Continue reading Ultimate will power

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Immigration practical pitfalls of making policy

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Alan Manning – former chair of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee- makes it clear, this doesn’t mean that we can’t do much better. In Why Immigration Policy is Hard, Manning says we should start by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. We will always have, and need, some level of immigration. But just as inevitably, we will have rules on who can and cannot immigrate as more people are likely to want to move to high-income countries than residents will want to admit. To set those rules, we need reliable evidence to adjudicate … Continue reading Immigration practical pitfalls of making policy

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Changing  western-dominated international order

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Former UK minister in the coalition government under David Cameron and chief economist at Shell, brings all his knowledge, common sense and experience in Eclipsing the West, defining political and economic issue of our era, relations between the west and the rising Asian countries like China and India. As the International order begins to crumble in the Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end, as America withdraws from its role as enforcer of the international order, other countries are moving in to fill the void.  Accounting for more than a third … Continue reading Changing  western-dominated international order

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Ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the colonies

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Ruthless is a revelation of Britain’s industrial revolution the result of its machines, which produced goods with miraculous efficiency and exploitation that enabled it. Was it the country’s natural abundance, which provided coal for its engines, ones for its furnaces and food for its labourers? Or was it Britain’s colonies, where a brutalised enslaved workforce produced cotton for its factories? Historian Edmond Smith reveals how the world’s first industrial nation was founded on the ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the planet. This economic system linked the plantations of the Caribbean with the colossal cotton mills of northern England, applied … Continue reading Ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the colonies

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Misrepresented women’s role in global economics

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Female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries who defied the women’s roles as producers and reproducers and the sense that things might have different if homo economicus, had been joined by femina ecobomics. In ancient Athens, did you know about Phryne, the richest woman who offered to pay to rebuild the walls of Thebes after the city was razed by Alexander the Great, or in Georgian England, Priscilla Wakefield, the writer and entrepreneur, set up the first English “penny bank” to help women on low incomes to save money and children to save from an early age ? What about the everyday woman … Continue reading Misrepresented women’s role in global economics