[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…

[escenic_image id="5537561"] Sovereign Debt and Market Confidence When EU Finance Ministers met in Brussels on 16 February to consider Greece’s budget deficit and public debt divergence from the…

[escenic_image id="5533406"]The past couple of months have seen the emergence of a surprising new internet music hit. The hit in question is a rap entitled Fear the Boom and Bust and is sung by the…

[escenic_image id="5530510"]The classical model for multilateral trade negotiations would include trade liberalisation through tariff reductions and elimination of non-tariff barriers. This model…