Danger: Banks Ahead!
The crisis that started in 2008 is a banking crisis and it is still going strong. Banks all over the world over-leveraged their capital and extended loans unwisely to the undeserving. American financial institutions lent money to homeowners...
Narcissism in The Boardroom
The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders – not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often remote-diagnosed them as “malignant,...
Albanian Dreams, Macedonian Nightmares
The once and future Prime Minister of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, has surrendered large swathes of his government to his Albanian coalition partners, DUI, the political incarnation of the rugged insurgents who roiled the country in an armed...
“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”
Imagine a bird that can understand all languages, and spends his life flying all over the world observing the state of humankind. What would he make of America?
Written By Dillon Freed
In Europe, he would see its citizens enjoying free trips...
Benedict’s Replacement?
Pope Benedict XVI announced last month his resignation from the papacy. The 85-year-old pope alluded to the fact that his age and poor health were the reasoning behind his decision. With his departure from the Vatican, many are wondering who...
Italian Chaos
Few things are as surprising as an Italian shambles and yet again this is the scenario in the only country in Europe that would allow someone like Silvio Berlusconi to run their country for over a decade. Berlusconi is still prominent among...
Europe Horse Meat Scandal US Topic
The horse meat scandal currently assailing European nations, including the United Kingdom, has reached the United States and is now the hottest topic in the country. The issue is relevant to beef products found to contain horse meat, after series...
People-Pleasers and Pathological Charmers
People-pleasers dread conflicts and wish to avoid them (they are conflict-averse) hence their need to believe that they are universally liked. Always pleasant, well-mannered, and civil, the conflict-averse people-pleaser is also evasive and...
The Solow Paradox
On March 21, 2005, Germany’s prestigious Ifo Institute at the University of Munich published a research report according to which “More technology at school can have a detrimental effect on education and computers at home can harm...
The Crescent and the Cross – Introduction
Religion and Community in the Balkans
“There are two maxims for historians which so harmonise with what I know of history that I would like to claim them as my own, though they really belong to nineteenth-century historiography: first,...
