[escenic_image id="5579402"]The year is 1988. The Soviet Union lives on and the Berlin Wall has not yet fallen. Two years before, the great historian Paul Kennedy published a book (The Rise and Fall…

[escenic_image id="5522874"]When Group of 20 leaders met in London in April last year in the teeth of the global economic crisis, they displayed impressive common purpose, pledging rapid and…

[escenic_image id="5567722"]The Middle East has emerged from the recent global economic crisis in better shape than most other regions. It successfully maintained positive economic output throughout…

[escenic_image id="5562312"]A conspicuous if not shocking feature of today’s world is its unambiguously upside-down state. While various industrialized countries find themselves on the verge of…

[escenic_image id="5557825"]Return on Equity (RoE) is one of the most well used metrics employed by listed companies and investors as a method of communicating whether there is a “reasonable rate of…

[escenic_image id="5557809"]In a global economy still inching its way out of a recession, Greece’s recent debt crisis has imbued trade floors with a fresh wave of uncertainty. Even with a $1 trillion…

[escenic_image id="5550355"]“The Balkan region produces more history than it can consume.” Even though one may find Winston Churchill’s famous observation unpalatable by today’s code of political…

[escenic_image id="5526390"]The EU does not quite match the American sense of mission. Even when the European heads of state give their history-laden speeches, they do not cast Brussels as the…

[escenic_image id="5541316"]Competing projections for America’s future debts have emerged from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office’s…

Moscow benefits most from the current stalemate between Iran and the West—providing it does not escalate into war or lead to Tehran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. For this reason, Russian…