Project Syndicate

The Race Between Economics and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing systemic shifts in the social fabric of world societies, none more so than in the world of economics, which is grappling with a sudden and sharp shift in society’s economic norms. [more]

Oil & Gas

Striking for the Climate

Greta Thunberg and her fellow climate-change activists vow to do whatever they can at the up-coming United Nations climate-change conference to get world leaders to act quickly and decisively to tackle the world’s growing climate-change problem. [more]

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Project Syndicate

China’s Hong Kong Problem

The last Governor of Hong Kong, Christopher Patten, has written an article, dated September 30, 2019, for Project Syndicate discussing China’s ongoing problem with the Hong Kong protesters. He thinks that, if China’s leaders were more sophisticated, they would act differently. [more]

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Project Syndicate

The Global Economy’s Four Collision Courses

Acclaimed American economist lays out four scenarios that could lead to a global economic recession and/or a severe financial crisis: (i) U.S.-China trade dispute; (ii) U.S. confrontation with Iran; (iii) A no-deal Brexit; and (iv) Next month’s Argentinian presidential election. [more]