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Make in India! But Can India Make It?

Reflections on the Post-Indian-Visa-Application-Stress-Syndrome.

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Cameron To Europe: Don’t Come Here Unless You Have a Job

The UK Prime Minister also wants you to leave your spouse at home.

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America’s Mezzogiorno: Take the Money and Run

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What is the outcome of the anti-government legislating for the southern U.S. states?

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Japan: From Abenomics to Abeggedon

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Japan’s lack of political circumspection has economic consequences.

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Japan Vs. China: Oil and a Tale of Two Countries

How the oil price drop has very different effects on China and Japan.

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The Oil Price Crash: Who Dunnit?

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Observations on the latest Saudi-American geo-strategic drone.

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Visiting India? Battling a Kafkaesque Bureaucracy

Reflections on the amazing difficulties of obtaining a visa to India.

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Why Europe Needs to Put Privatization Back on the Agenda

Privatized firms neither need to accommodate politicians’ wishes nor maintain unproductive jobs and factories.

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Piketty, Right or Wrong? The Global Wealth Game

How can it be that wealth grows faster than income for a sustained period of time?

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Rousseff, Brazil and Global Leadership

Is President Dilma ready for a change of course at home and abroad?

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