Wall Street risk analyst Nassim Taleb is well-known for having predicted the 2007-08 financial crash in his April 2007 book, The Black Swan. Taleb…

In 1983, German-born American economist Theodore Levitt published an article titled The Globalisation of Markets. He had coined a term that meant the…

Last week, Syria’s new administration appointed Dr Maysa Sabrin as Governor of the Central Bank of Syria (CBS), replacing former governor Muhammad…

Hezbollah was established in 1982. Three years later, in its Open Letter to the Oppressed in 1985, the group declared that its objective was to…

The foundational pillars of Germany’s contemporary economy date back over 70 years, laid by Konrad Adenauer during his Chancellorship from 1949-63…

In June, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)—known as the “Bank of Central Banks”—urged countries to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to…

When countries’ governments and financial organisations do not do enough to tackle the threat of money laundering and terrorist financing, sirens go…

US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has one of the world’s most important jobs, making some of the world’s biggest economic decisions…

The bunker-busting bombs used by Israel to assassinate the senior leadership of Hezbollah may also have destroyed a large part of its dollar stash…

Recent research has found that public confidence in Western democracies has markedly declined. Professor Yascha Mounk, a political scientist at…