The Debt Crisis
The Debt Crisis By Uwe Lohmann We are currently over 10 years into a time of super-low interest rates. The Fed’s choice to keep capital cheap- and most presumably later…
Vladimir Putin – The Paramount Leader
Thanks to legislation just passed by Russia’s parliament, Vladimir Putin now looks set to remain president until 2036, when he turns 83. He may even attain the status of “paramount…
The Dominance of Big Tech – No End in Sight
When Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said recently that revenues at the company had soared past 161 billion US-Dollar last year, it was a stark reminder of the widening gap between…
How Big Tech like Amazon determine their power – Startups are helpless
Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business and had grown to 100 employees. Then Amazon came along. In 2015, Amazon’s cloud computing arm announced it was…
Demand for flexible office space in the Middle East is picking up
The past five years have seen a fundamental shift in which worldwide office space is used by occupiers, which has changed the way that office space is being delivered by…
Private Equity in the Gulf comes back on track
Since 2014, the Gulf’s private equity (PE) industry has been facing challenges in the wake of macroeconomic slowdown combined with oil price volatility and rising geopolitical risk. To top it…
One more possible Trade War is on the horizon
Most people have never heard of the World Trade Organization’s moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions. And yet it may be in our opinion one of the most important…
Silicon Valley’s success formula will change
The story of WeWork, Uber, and similar pieces larded with schadenfreude about a raft of companies backed by a mixture of venture, growth, Petro, hedge and mutual fund dollars, suggests…
Global Economies edge into downturn
As President Donald Trump intensifies his trade war with China, and as factories slow in major industrial nations, world commerce is deteriorating rapidly, a perilous development that threatens the health…
World Economic Growth – let’s say goodbye
Global markets were seized by fear last month that trade wars were slowing growth in Germany, China and the United States. But the story here in our opinion is far…
