Costs of a natural disaster
Synthesizing the cost of a natural disaster into a dollar-based estimate strips out the mental, emotional, and human costs of a natural disaster. It is easy to calculate economic costs,…
Roadmap to economic recovery [Part – IV]
Recent news has kept us stirred up with the ups and downs of our deal with the IMF. We are at a stage where taking on debt, not for a…
Political woes and economic funk mean few takers for British assets
A potent mix of weak growth, high inflation, and a new bout of political instability means no respite in sight for British assets struggling to find interest from investors. British…
Overcoming economic woes
Governments around the world try to fulfil the responsibility of creating an environment where the state generates enough resources to ensure the protection of national interests and the economic well-being…
Entropy and its costs
“If you leave Argentina and come back 20 days later … you will find everything is different. But if you come back after 20 years, you will find everything is…
Soaring battery costs fail to cool electric vehicle sales
Buyers around the world are lining up to purchase electric vehicles this year even with sticker prices surging, flipping the script on a decade and a half of conventional auto…
US trucking downturn foreshadows possible economic gloom
Craig Fuller monitors millions of transactions between US truckers and their customers as chief executive of transportation data company FreightWaves - and he does not like what he is seeing.…
Urgent need for economic diplomacy activism
‘It is therefore in advanced economies’ interest to help poorer countries reduce the mounting risk of little economic fires everywhere. …For starters, a pre-emptive multilateral debt-restructuring and relief initiative is…
After ECB shock, European firms confront higher borrowing costs
European companies hoping to fund M&A and capital expenditures on bond markets this year are facing a sudden jump in borrowing costs and wary buyers after the ECB’s shock pivot…
Global economic crisis and Neoliberalism
‘The global multilateral economic system has been stress tested twice this century. The first time was with the 2008 global economic meltdown; the second – with the COVID-19 pandemic. And…
