Sublime

I outlined three enormous challenges for the Digital Age: rising inequality, massive environmental degradation, and the risks arising from major geopolitical change. These daunting challenges could overload our political institutions and provoke a devastating conflict. Such has been the pattern of the past. Surely the prime task of our age is to re

Second, the recent escalation of trade tensions coupled with the threat of possible financial tensions, rising US debt levels and a softening of the US exorbitant privilege may have caused some global investors to reassess the extent of their dollar exposure. So far, markets developments have been orderly, with an increase in demand for dollar hedg

The World Bank (more formally, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) is not the world’s central bank, as its name suggests, but rather a global organization devoted to promoting economic development in poorer countries. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the institutions created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference t

L’ingéniosité de Cortney consiste à considérer ce qui n’était pas envisagé comme un droit économique comme un aspect de la constitution économique du monde : l’argent devient un élément de propriété relevant de la sphère économique, qui transcende la juridiction politique. Dans son interprétation, le capital exige une protection, au titre des droit

In December 2010,