50 Shades of Pink: A Colorful Outlook on the Future of Consumer Debt Dynamics
From Amsterdam to Berlin, if you ever find yourself lost in a European metropolis, you have a pretty good chance of coming across a pink...
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Alessandro Scagnolari
- Oct 20
- 9 min
Is there life after death for Swiss banking?
Whether you are a luxury watch enthusiast, a frequent visitor of its amazing skiing resorts, or maybe a fan of Federer’s magic touch,...
Carlo Felician
- Jul 28
- 3 min
Financial Crises: Random Shocks or “Biological Regularities”?
Economists are notoriously bad at predicting recessions even as they are taking place. Or maybe they are too good. After all, “the stock...
Mikołaj Kuczmarski
- Jun 7
- 5 min
Pay to Live - A Brief Look At The Subscription Economy
Do you own anything? I mean, really own anything? Or do you just rent everything from someone else? That’s the question that haunts me...
Indigo Hemingway
- May 6
- 5 min
The Two Tales of the Twenty-twenties
There is general acceptance of two modern-day behemoths: looming global recession and the boundless economic potential of artificial...
Carlo Felician Kouwenhoven
- Mar 7
- 4 min
Man vs. Machine: Why Cooperation is the Best Option
The term ‘technological unemployment’ has long been on the horizon. As early as 1930, John Maynard Keynes described this phenomenon as...
Riad Guliyev
- Feb 19
- 5 min
The Caspian Connector
"To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the...
Mikołaj Kuczmarski
- Feb 7
- 8 min
Fall of the (crypto) titan
The last year has been rather tough for crypto. Over the summer we saw prices crash and several companies fail. If anyone thought the...
Mira Chandrikasingh
- Feb 7
- 5 min
Organ Operations
What is the organ market, and why do we have one? Around 2014, China reported that about 85,000 organs were transplanted, this was...
Riad Guliyev
- Jan 14
- 5 min
Bitter Stalemate In Money Supply
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig (© Nobel Prize Outreach/Niklas Elmehed) In 1661 Johan Palmstruch discovered a Midas touch...
Ekin Köseoğlu
- Jan 14
- 4 min
Whatever happened to NFTs?
Non-fungible tokens. NFTs. Pictures of monkeys and three-dimensional animations of Donald Trump puking rainbows were all over our Twitter...
Konstantin van Thiel
- Jan 13
- 5 min
A Dying Breed
Farm workers toil in the fields: Agriculture is no longer what it used to be (Source: Shaina Bombase) The typical image of an idyllic...
Carlo Felician
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Who’s Really Taking Your Money?
“The Culprits Behind Greedflation” We all know the story of Robin Hood. Steal from the rich and give to the poor. The unprecedented...
Ekin Köseoğlu
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
Terror and Tourism: How does terror hurt the economy?
On June 5, 2015, a rally was taking place in Diyarbakır, a city in Eastern Turkey, when an explosion took place. This was the start of a...
nourelezabii
- Nov 22, 2022
- 5 min
Is Lebanon’s Economic Meltdown Threatening to Erase History?
Could Lebanon’s economic collapse be affecting history? Quite an unusual question to ask yourself, I suppose. But, if we look a little...
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