Andrew Rosenbaum is a journalist, editor and copywriter with 20 years of experience. Most of his career has been spent in Europe, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, where he has covered political, social and economic issues for the Wall Street Journal, the Times, Time magazine, Euromoney, The Economist and many other major publications. He has also worked for KPMG, FreshMinds and Microsoft as a copywriter, and is an expert on financial law and fintech – a founding member of European Blocktech Federation. He is currently based in Cyprus.
In May, the bellwether investment bank Goldman Sachs decided to slash its exposure to Emerging Markets. Rising trade tensions between the US and China were blamed for the move. “We have scaled back overweight exposure to EM (emerging market) currencies...
On July 22, 2019, Iran announced the arrest of 17 Iranian citizens on charges of spying for the US, a claim that President Donald Trump dismissed as “totally false.” This came just after Iran seized a British oil tanker in...
In June, she appeared on the American TV show “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Asked why she took over the IMF in the midst of the financial crisis, Christine Lagarde quipped: “Whenever the situation is really, really bad, you...
‘Redneck’ is a slang American term for “a working-class person, especially a politically reactionary one, from a rural area.” It has nothing to do with race. Most people think that this is this kind of person who supports US President...
In France, 65% of those who employ maids today pay them on the books – a sharp change from 10 years ago when nearly all maids were a part of the informal economy. Today, “le travail au noir” (working in...
The launch of Facebook’s cryptocurrency, “Libra”, on June 18, 2019, is an ambitious attempt by Facebook to diversify its business and move into financial services. One has to admire the scale of the move, but one also has to wonder...
As US President Donald Trump arrived in London, he took a moment to praise former London mayor and current candidate for the prime minister’s seat, Boris Johnson: “I think Boris would do a very good job. I think he would...
Brexit is an economic disaster. This is not an argument up for debate. Statistics show that Brexit is already costing the UK billions – in GDP decline, in investment decline, in tax revenue decline – and that is not all....
The jingoistic attacks on world trade by the Trump administration have already hurt economic growth in Europe. Europe, just starting out on an uneven recovery, could plunge into recession if world trade is disrupted further. Oxford Economics in London estimates...
As Mario Draghi’s term as president comes to an end, the battle over who will succeed him has brought all of the flaws that plague the European Central Bank to the fore. “The Eurozone will endure, but it will not...
Perché abbonarsi
Questo giornale rimarrò libero e accessibile a tutti. Abbonandoti lo sostieni.
