Several banks and companies have in recent months published reports about the ‘World in 2050’. While I greatly admire such research, I have previously written about the limitations of such exercises. Nonetheless, I believe that there is indeed a strong case for crafting scenarios for what the world will look like in 2050, or even… [Read more]
On Tuesday Risk Watchdog attended Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa’s exposition of the ‘The international economy, and the process of the citizen’s revolution in Ecuador’ at the London School of Economics. Or at least that was the title of his talk. Disappointingly there was very little description of how the citizen’s revolution is progressing in present… [Read more]
On Tuesday I went to the Paul Krugman lecture at the London School of Economics (LSE). First things first – I found the whole thing very interesting, particularly the origins of the current crisis. To be honest, though, I left feeling a little depressed. If the government doesn’t come to the aid of the UK… [Read more]