Expanding the Legacy
A Year to Forget
The year now drawing to a close, began rather inauspiciously when, on 6 January, an unruly mob assaulted and ransacked the Capitol in Washington, shaking the world’s (arguably) most revered democracy to its very foundations and laying bare the fault lines of a political environment turned toxic. President Donald Trump...
Small Earthquake in Chile
A land of geographical and political extremes, Chile seems to have rejected moderation as the nation elevated a former student protest leader to the presidency. However, the electorate did so reluctantly. It faced an almost impossible choice between a right-wing apologist for authoritarian rule and a left-wing radical. Leading the...
Inflation Spike Puzzles ECB
For years on end, central bankers in Europe and the United States have implored providence to deliver a modicum of inflation. Over the past five years, the Eurozone slid twice into deflationary territory. As recently as August 2020, the consumer price index retracted by 0.2% (year-on-year), prompting President Christine Lagarde...
The Fallacy of ‘Chinese Characteristics’
Amongst political philosophers, it has of late become fashionable to hail China as a model of effective governance. The country’s rapid development – according to the World Bank the fastest sustained growth of a major economy ever in world history – seems to imply that it has found an alternative,...
