Essays & News

  Over the past 25 years, the relationship between China and Latin America has undergone a dramatic shift. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in 2000, China accounted for less than 2 percent of Latin America’s exports. Over the next eight years, trade grew at an annual rate of 31 percent. By 2021, bilateral […]

A self-declared democratic socialist as mayor of Big Apple*.   “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about”. Zohran Mamdani I It is rather unfortunate but hardly disputable that Socialism, despite its theoretical blunders, its catastrophic record, and all […]

  There is a sobering truth about artificial intelligence: It is not yet profitable. Money is pouring into AI, and funds flow through it – for the time being. But when one examines AI companies’ profits, clear data is hard to find. The numbers are interesting: Private AI investments in the United States hit $109.1 billion in […]

  The United Kingdom’s prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, visited Beijing last week, leading a delegation of top British business people for meetings with President Xi Jinping. The prime minister stated “China matters,” leaving room for interpretation. A similar visit was carried out by French President Emmanuel Macron in December, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz […]

  Investment “dark pools” have been at the center of a lengthy controversy, attracting much criticism and numerous calls for regulatory clampdowns. These private trading venues where large institutional investors execute orders outside public exchanges, more often than not with minimal oversight and without public attention, have frequently been described as opaque, destabilizing and unfair. […]