US Election Series

Trump, the media & the populist politics of the pogrom

Oct 04, 2016 07:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The coming of the Internet, and the global spread of social media, has triggered a period of intensifying cultural chaos. The global consequences are profound. Short term, the digital communications revolution has...

US Election Series

Can Trump create millions of jobs? Don't bet on it

Oct 04, 2016 07:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Politics

Donald Trump claims he should be president in part because he has succeeded at creating jobs and businesses. While the foundation of his business empire was in New York real estate and construction thanks to a...

Canada's strong July GDP points to healthy economic momentum for Q3

Oct 03, 2016 11:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks

Canadian real GDP grew by 0.5 percent in July, adding to Junes 0.6 percent gain. The July GDP gain exceeded economists consensus of 0.3 percent. The strong July result was mainly driven by a continued recovery in oil...

Colombia's peace plebiscite: the case for Yes and the case for No

Oct 03, 2016 08:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

On October 2, Colombians will go to the polls to answer a deceptively simple question with enormous implications for their country: Do you support the final agreement for the conclusion of the armed conflict and the...

Global Geopolitics Series

Cuba is reheating relations with Russia and US at the same time

Oct 03, 2016 08:02 am UTC| Insights & Views

For the first time in more than two generations, the US presidential race in Florida is following a different dynamic no longer is the political debate in this key swing state dominated by Washingtons relationship with...

Why Deutsche Bank stock fell so far

Oct 03, 2016 07:49 am UTC| Insights & Views

Deutsche Bank is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Some speculators believe that it will be the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse all over again. Shares in the bank were briefly driven down to single digits. They seem to...

Vogue's attack on style bloggers shows how much the newcomers have the fashion mags rattled

Oct 03, 2016 07:39 am UTC| Insights & Views

For years, style bibles such as Vogue and Elle have found their exclusivity undermined by bloggers, who with huge numbers of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram followers have won over the designer brands that would normally...