The post-Covid landscape will be reminiscent of the end of a World War. As World Wars go the cost of 2-3 million dead and over 100 million affected is certainly low but the overall damage is done to S…
NEW, POST PANDEMIC, WEALTH
“Unsustainable things can last longer than you anticipate”. Morgan Housel Measuring the present disaster, in numbers ONLY, is CRUSHING. This is not about 1929, it took four years then to reach …
ENERGY & CIRCULAR ECONOMY
THE POST COVID-19 WORLD
The pandemic is changing profoundly the global landscape and will change the Economic and Social balance of power worldwide. Many Economies, particularly those of some Petro-States, but not only, will…
CHALLENGES START AT THE END OF THE PANDEMIC
The need to face the immediate threat of the pandemic covers temporarily the collateral damage that this Coronavirus is causing, hiding the problems that lie ahead when this pandemic will be brought u…
CHINA – THE DRAGON ALSO RISES
The Coronavirus pandemic led a lot of pundits to refer to a collapse of the Chinese Economy and even that of China. This is a simplistic and narrow framed time-wise approach that is fundamental…
IS THE CORONAVIRUS THE PROBLEM?
The Coronavirus has triggered the fastest financial crash from a record ever. Markets had their worst week since October 2008. But why is the Coronavirus the cause? The 2018 – 2019 flu epidemic …
OIL AFTER KHURAIS & ABQAIQ
The purpose of this article is to examine the World Supply and Demand situation after the shocking attack that temporarily crippled by half the Saudi Hydrocarbons production. A short Geopolitical intr…
TRADE WARS & INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Trade Wars Abstract The greatest disruption of Business globally is not coming from the technological revolution but from Trade Wars. The Global consequences of the Trade Wars are the most impactful e…
EDUCATING THE DIPLOMATS IN SECOND DIGITAL ERA
Educating the Diplomats in the Second Digital Era: Energy, Economy and Politics. Today’s multipolar world order (aka post-modern world) is largely a digital one: if the first 25 to 35 years after the …