Since the start of the latest war in the Middle East at the end of March, Lego-style propaganda movies have become very popular (as you would have guessed, they are not associated with the danish brand of plastic construction toys). These are opinionated short clips distributed on social media reacting often to the latest developments […]
Tag: USA
Why Immigration and Emigration Are on the Rise
Countries worry about immigration, but many don’t realise – or maybe don’t want to know – how many of their own citizens leave each year. In the developed world these days it is trendy to worry about immigration. Not the undesirable kind, meaning criminals and all sort of shady types, but immigrants in general. People […]
Geopolitics: Trump’s Territorial Aspirations
With President Trump reportedly casting acquisitive glances toward Canada and Greenland, the world has been reminded of a long-lost genre of geopolitics: the real estate brochure. Borders, it turns out, are just zoning suggestions, and sovereignty is merely a lease agreement waiting to be renegotiated by someone with enough confidence and a very large Sharpie. […]
The Cost of Combining Politics and Business
Politics and business, for a number of reasons, do not make good bedfellows! Take Elon Musk for example: While he and his minions are running havoc cutting (or more likely ‘slashing’) costs within the US government, sales of his Tesla cars have hit the rocks. In Switzerland in January 26.6% fewer Teslas were registered than […]
The Rise of Global Powers: Challenges for Europe
The world increasingly is revolving around three major powers: the United States, Russia and China. And with all three blocs being led by autocratic personalities and governments, a degree of confrontation is pre-programmed: America seeks to take control of the Panama Canal, would like to accept Canada as the 51st state and wants to buy […]
$370’000 per hour
That lawyers among other professionals can charge exorbitant hourly rates for their work is nothing new. But what the three law firms representing Richard Tornetta, the Tesla-investor who while holding 9 shares only in 2018 successfully sued the company over Elon Musk’s $56 billion compensation package now claim is nothing short of outrageous! In total […]
Divided We Stand: Navigating Political Polarisation
As elections in Britain and the United States are upon us (and all of a sudden also in France), it is time to look at the political landscape and how it has evolved. Once upon a time in the United Kingdom there used to be the Conservatives and the Labour Party – and to a […]
Presidential Past, Criminal Present
The announcement on 30 May was not quite unexpected I suppose: a New York jury found former president Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. So the former and aspiring POTUS is now a convicted felon. This means, should he get re-elected in November, that the most powerful democracy in the […]
Blowing the whistle on whistle blowing?
Wouldn’t it be great to receive a $114 million payout? One lucky chap in the US actually in October 2021 was awarded exactly this amount by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and another agency for blowing the whistle on some shady business business practices by his financial markets employer. As a matter of fact, […]
Shoplifting
Shoplifting, large and small, tends to rise during times of crisis. As inflation makes things harder for more families, retail theft data will be a telling gauge for consumer distress. With prices rising exponentially, expectations are that this will become even more of a problem as long as high inflation persists. And it is’t just […]
The grumpy older man 