Trump’s tweet-based badgering of the Saudis to increase production will not ease pressures resting on the global oil market. High time to do a reality check.
Closing Africa’s Tax Revenue Gap
African countries lose more than $50 billion each year to illegal financial outflows, mostly through tax avoidance and evasion.
Six Ways How Trump Gets Trade and Europe Wrong
What Europe earns by selling goods to the U.S., it spends on licensing fees for U.S. technology and on U.S. services. Nothing unfair here.
How Trump Should Think About China
As China’s example shows, a country needs to invest in its future prosperity. Tariffs and tax cuts are no way to get there.
As Trump Tries to Slay the Chinese Dragon
Major U.S. companies cannot be happy about the effects that President Trump’s trade war with China will have on their business fortunes.
Trade Wars and the Clash of Perceptions
Trump sees China as a wealthy country with many poor people, while China sees itself as a poor country with wealthy people.
Italy: When Trumpism Hits Euroland
The EU no longer lives in the orderly world of the Maastricht treaties, but in the world of a “populist monetary union.”
Germany, Beware of Uber’s “New” Ridesharing Model
Uber’s new CEO presents a kinder, gentler face of his company. But don’t be fooled. The business model hasn’t changed.
How Trump Gets It Wrong on Trade
The U.S. President seems to have the upper hand – for now. He doesn’t realize how his trade actions will backfire at home.
Italy and the Euro
If a radical government in Rome plunges Italy into a deep crisis, it would still be an Italian crisis — rather than a “euro“ crisis.
























