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This week’s G20 meeting took place in Indonesia, the most important country that people routinely overlook. The last time its economy and politics were in the global spotlight was during the mayhem of the 1990s when a crony capitalist system collapsed amid the Asian financial crisis, causin...
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Hello and welcome back to Breaking The Dollar. I'm your host, Everett Millman. We're doing something a little bit different for today's episode. There was such a violent reaction in the financial markets this week to some tensions being ramped up between the US and China, that I wanted...
RADHIKA DESAI: Sure. Very important. Glenn, please go ahead. GLENN DIESEN: I keep hearing the same argument as well. My question is how and when, because keep in mind that when the war began then in February of 2022, it was the West that put sanctions on Russ...
And I was very grateful for the chair stepping out. And because I wasn’t gonna be able to intervene myself. I felt very awkward. So I was always grateful that that he took that on and stepped in. And I think that's so important. As you know, there are some really great ...
As a consumer and/or business partner I was taught early on that the ‘squeaky wheel gets the oil’. This can be taken at two levels, and there is an important distinction between the two. Face Value = Good customer interaction: At its base level it’s reasonable to assume that sp...
However, COVAX was undermined by the absence of the US and Russia and their shift to unilateral approaches to vaccine development and diplomacy (The Economist, 2020f) and a discourse emphasizing the importance of vaccinating “their people” in the interest of the rest of the world. It was ...
CEO was a world-class executor (a Harvard grad and world-class salesman) of an existing business model trying to manage in a world of increasing change and disruption. Microsoft executed its 20th-century business model extremely well, but it m...
Indeed 13 weeks after the KDF started the incursions into the southern sector of Somalia, a billion-dollar deal with neighbouring South Sudan was signed to construct a $3.9bn, 2,240km oil pipeline, connecting the oil fields of the Upper Nile state of South Sudan with Lamu. This is not...