by Alexandru Georgescu Maybe it is the effect of being immersed in the now and only being aware of the rough summary of history, but I am not alone in getting the feeling that the political polarization in the Western world has reached such a fever pitch that political coups that took place once in a generation are now occurring with greater frequency. Whether it is the unbalancing of the...

by Alexandru Georgescu Maybe it is the effect of being immersed in the now and only being aware of the rough summary of history, but I am not alone in getting the feeling that the political polarization in the Western world has reached such a fever pitch that political coups that took place once in a generation are now occurring with greater frequency. Whether it is the unbalancing of the...

by Alexandru Georgescu There have been many attempts to label Donald Trump as an anti-Semite by his Democratic opponents, who feel themselves entitled to sling the accusation around implicitly because of Jewish voting patterns that heavily favor them. This is the sort of “scarlet letter” that instantly destroys careers, campaigns and social standing without a presumption of innocence or due...

by Alexandru Georgescu Western political culture is adept at communication through soundbites and sloganizing. Adding suffixes (-nomics, -care, -ism) to names of politicians is one way of supposedly distinguishing their brand of ideology from that of another – Reaganomics, Thatcherism, Clintonomics, Romneycare, Obamacare. Echoing Bill Clinton’s famous campaign war cry, “it’s the economy,...

by Alexandru Georgescu The staffing of the Trump Administration will always be its Achilles’ heel, from the lowest echelons of its 4,000 positions to be filled to the Cabinet level of the mandarins who decide many of the US Executive branch’s policies and their details. Regardless of the factual and moral truth in the matter of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s discussions...

by Alexandru GEORGESCU Science fiction author William Gibson coined the phrase in the title of this article in an interview with The Economist over a decade ago and his observation still stands. Automation and its physical sub-domain, robotization, are taking the world by storm. Automation stands for the reduction of human input in any process, though we will be referring mostly to economic...

de Alexandru GEORGESCU Forumul Economic Mondial de la Davos, înființat în anul 1971, este emblematic pentru epoca noastră prin felul în care, spre deosebire de mai vechiul Grup Bilderberg, curtează notorietatea inclusiv printr-o transparență calculată cu privire la puterea celor care vin și subiectele de maximă importanță globală (printre unele diversiuni triviale) care se discută....

by Alexandru Georgescu Donald Trump’s stunning electoral upset presages a new political realignment within the United States’ two-party system. Hopefully, the end of such a process will be a more competitive system, in which the preferences of the large and increasingly heterogenous American population are better aggregated and reflected in the resulting public policies. The US is no...

de Alexandru Georgescu Indiferent de ce se va întâmpla cu moștenirea sa, faima și averea Președintelui Obama sunt garantate. Este un laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Pace, iar simbolismul alegerii sale în fruntea Americii îl transformă într-un agent pivotal al istoriei Americii. Partidul pe care îl lasă în urmă, însă, se confruntă cu numeroase probleme, iar insistențele...

de Alexandru Georgescu Întrebare capcană! Un “Război Rece” comercial se desfășoară între cele două țări de când George W Bush a prezidat peste intrarea Chinei în Organizația Mondială a Comerțului. Peste noapte, China a avut acces la regimul tarifar construit în cursul a decenii de lupte politice de către WTO pentru peste 160 de țări, calibrat special pentru a permite unei...