How Trump is somewhat right about globalization
At his inauguration, Donald Trump made remarks few would expect from the President of the United States. Standing in front of the Capitol, Trump echoed […]
Economics
The Diligent and Freeloader: A Welfare State Experiment
Nothing is free in the world, except the monthly money given to a citizen just because of the citizenship. This concept, most notably called ‘basic […]
Choosing Sides: The Former TPP
The largest trade deal in history died before it could live. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) took years to negotiate and the finished product was going […]
Silence the Alarm: Why China’s AIIB is not a Trojan horse
The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) has been a lightening rod for western analysts, think-tanks and media that believe China represents a threat to […]
FTAs in East Asia: Economic integration or spheres of influence?
In the past few years the rhetorical back and forth between China and the US over economic institutional governance has intensified. Along with concerns over […]
Millenials and the Transformation of Jobs
The job landscape is always changing. That is why it might be a good idea to not take your parents’ career advice to heart. Millenials […]
Market Economy Status: Does China deserve it?
Fifteen years after its accession into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China is now looking forward to seeing its status as a non-market economy (NME) […]
Bitcoin in China: The RMB is no longer the yuan and only currency
What do the bailout of Cyprus and the Lushan earthquake in April 2013 have in common? They both drew the attention of Chinese eyes to […]
The Peaks and Troughs of the Mongolian Economy
Over the past decades, the Mongolian economy has been very volatile. Before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, 80% of Mongolia’s trade was […]
Nigeria, the Troubled Economic Giant
The Modern Portfolio Theory in the early 1970s argued that investors should invest in Asian and Latin American stock markets that are less intertwined with […]