Economic trends
Growth, recessions, fiscal policy, monetary policy, currencies and global business deals. GIS experts provide forecasts and potential scenarios for all of the economic trends that shape geopolitics.
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Europe adrift
Brexit is a symptom of the European Union’s internal disarray. In quick succession, the debt crisis, the Ukraine crisis and the migration crisis all challenged centralist visions of ever-deeper integration and soft-power expansion. The political mainstream’s abandonment of traditional values ...
Russia resurgent
Russia’s incursion in Ukraine raised alarm about a new Cold War, deepened with the intervention in Syria and allegations of meddling in U.S. elections. But the Kremlin’s new assertiveness is largely defensive, while Ukraine’s emergence as a nation-state undermines Moscow’s ...
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Is there a future for the EU’s banking union?
The eurozone’s banking industry barely survived the 2008-2012 financial crisis. A common regulatory and supervisory system, a banking union, was meant to make the industry more resilient. A decade later, this “single rule book” remains incomplete as transferring responsibility for banking policy from the national to supranational level has met strong resistance.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation
Inflation is a grave economic and social illness. The policymakers and central bankers who colluded in running up excessive public debts and rigging monetary policy to sustain them might silently have been praying for higher inflation rates for quite some time. Finally, they are getting their wish. But for the ...
Sustainability: Let business lead the way
To achieve development goals, societies across the world will have to balance economic sustainability, social factors and ecological necessities. Already, business is making strong progress on this front. Governments’ role should be to set sensible parameters, but too often gets in the way, trying to spend or economically plan its ...
Italy’s Draghi leverages the EU Covid fund to push reforms
Former ECB head Mario Draghi has made some adroit moves as Italy’s prime minister. He also has the credibility in Brussels that his predecessors lacked, a clever plan for using the EU’s Covid funds for domestic reforms, and even a measure of good luck. Can a Trojan horse strategy work ...
China: Bureaucrats crack under pressure
After decades of generous monetary policy, China announced it would take a more moderate approach. But policymakers have now realized that future growth will be lower than needed, that inflation is about to rise and that a more rigorous monetary policy may be a source of tensions and possible crisis. ...
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