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Many of today’s amazing things H.G. Wells imagined years earlier: electrical tools capable of reviving the unconscious, manned space travel to and from the moon, machines that…
A year ago, at Aman’s Amanjena resort in Morocco, I was thinking the global ruling class is slowly deconstructing its calendar. The monied migration, once defined by events like…
After attending the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit, I spent a bizarre weekend with a friend wandering around a place with a ruler who criminalised the formation of…
I was chatting on Skype today with my friend Walter, a fellow University of Chicago alumnus living in East Africa. Walter lives in Kenya and I live in Uganda – our countries are…
The news that northern areas of Kenya were suffering famine came as a surprise to analysts on many fronts. Kenya is seen as a stable East African growth economy and Nairobi, its…
IKEA, the world’s largest furniture manufacturer, made a large donation today to help starving people in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
Well, that’s what international news…
It’s the tension that characterised Twentieth Century economics: freshwater versus saltwater. A few of America’s great economics programmes, all of them near freshwater…
The current strategy to contain the spread of nuclear weapons depends upon the technological infancy of the "bad guys." In essence, it is assumed that terrorist…
The European Union and its member states continue to struggle to find a response to the Arab Spring. Past policy approaches had little impact on the area’s regimes, if anything…
The IMF is one of the most misunderstood (and poorly explained, to spread the blame a bit) institutions in finance. This week, while I was in New York, it was thrust into the…