Another member of the opaque crypto sphere investigated. It is always dangerous to try to draw a parallel between competitors. However, the lack of transparency of Binance is similar to FTX. It does not publish financial statements. A Reuters analysis of Binance’s corporate filings shows that the core of the…

Coming back from the IMF meetings in Washington, I was impressed to see how deep the consensus was on the necessity to find ways to counteract the largest risk: an emerging market financial crisis that will this time go beyond the low-income countries and reach emerging markets who had access…

On November 11, 1947, almost thirty years after the World War I armistice, at the British Parliament pronounced those words: “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have…

Listening and reading the media as they cover the death of Queen Elizabeth II, I noticed a profound misunderstanding of what a constitutional monarchy represents, how diverse it is, and how it compares to a republic. …

I am terrified to see how Democrats are assaulting President Joe Biden and starting to speculate on the Presidential election while ignoring the fundamental challenges of the midterm elections. …

Why Autocrats Destroy their Countries: the Chinese, Russian, Turkish and Venezuelan Similitudes The emergence of autocrats in the last decennia, including populists who do not apply the rules of democracy, has led, in one form or another to the destruction of their countries. These leaders are moved by megalomania or…

The run for more morality in geopolitics following the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia is laudable, in view of the war crimes committed by its army and the absence of legitimacy of its actions. I, like many others, did feel the pain and the anxiety of seeing a new…

Having worked from New York with Indian companies and authorities for the best part of the last twenty years, I have looked very closely at the developments of the Indo-US relationships in the context of the Ukrainian war. A bit of history: the US as the newcomer It looks like…

1. The military conflict in Ukraine Vladimir Putin launched yesterday’s war without today’s weaponry. He probably followed the playbook of another Russian aggression that happened when he was at the KGB. On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down…