After the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine is also acting as an accelerator of major dynamics on a global scale, and the risk of a food crisis is no exception. In recent months, the shadows of rising food commodity prices, due to a mix of geopolitical tensions, financial speculation…

Defeating Covid-19, or rather Omicron, at all costs and making the national economy as self-sufficient as possible, both energy-wise and economically/commercially. In this instance, China has been continuing to adopt the ZERO-COVID strategy for two years now. A move that was as useful in the first phase of the pandemic…

Financial instruments worth $ 100 trillion dollar market — Financial Literacy 101 — In this segment of Financial Literacy 101, we are going to start in a more “visual” way this time, putting our brains to work. Without further ado, let’s look at the picture below: What you are seeing is the size of the whole WORLD ECONOMY, divided by country and their…

With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, everything changed in expectations for the global economy. This was supposed to be the year of recovery from the Covid-19 shock. By the end of 2023–2024, analysts expected — despite strong slowing forces dominating the international environment — that the U.S., European, and…

In a world narrative dominated by the latest news, the shadow of all in war in the old continent of Europe reigns sovereign. …

As we learnt in the previous articles the closing of gold window by president Nixon in 1973 left the whole world in shock, and it was only the tip of the iceberg following numerous year of uncontrolled spending policies lead by the U.S. both internally and on the international chessboard. …

Introduction to Part Two — In the previous article, we gave a brief connotation of the background of the modern petrodollar system and the introduction of a system in which dollars were “backed by gold” — an arrangement put in place by global leaders through the Bretton Woods conference in the final days of WWII. …

If you have never heard of the petrodollar system, rest assured you are not alone: it is certainly not a topic that makes its way out of Washington and Wall Street circles too often. Despite being the mechanism at the core of the whole dollarized financial system we use, it…

The data speak for themselves: for at least 6 or 7 years now, the cost per megawatt hour of renewable energy has been lower than that of traditional fossil fuels. also the cost of solar in the last 10 years has fallen by 90%, thanks to economies of scale in the production of panels, but also thanks to technological developments that have made the modules increasingly efficient. On the contrary, in the last decade, the cost of production of energy from traditional sources has remained substantially unchanged — net of geopolitical issues: the technologies for extraction, transport and refining have not seen particular developments that could have contributed to a reduction…