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An Exciting Time For The Developing World
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on December 15, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Alejandro Toledo, Dr. Cheick Modibo Diarra, education, frica Person of the Year, Lamido Sanusi, leadership, Mali, MEDays, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Wall Street
As I have mentioned before on this blog, one of the most pressing questions of our time is leadership – and the lack of it. Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion on this topic at (…)
Seeking Stability in an Unstable World
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 14, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: America, china, Donald Tsang, Fan Gang, instability, Luis Alberto Moreno
“In this connected world, we are all in the same boat. If part of the boat has a hole in it you cannot say afloat.” The words of the chief executive of Hong Kong SAR, Donald Tsang, spoken at the (…)
Our leadership crisis
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 9, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Argentina, Brazil, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Dilma Rousseff, euro crisis, George Papandreou, Greece, Silvio Berlusconi
Over and again as the economic crisis ripples across the world, one has theme recurred: the need for leadership. When people are fighting adversity every day, they want politicians whom they trust, and if those don’t appear there is trouble. (…)
APEC’s challenge: It’s still the economy
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on November 7, 2011 • One comment • Tagged as: APEC, Barack Obama, china, Eric Schmidt, Global Economy, Hillary Clinton, usa
Last week saw the end of the G20 summit in Cannes, with the attendant focus on the Euro crisis. At the end of this week another meeting will be held which will hopefully have a more optimistic outcome: the APEC CEO summit, bringing (…)
So what do the Occupy Wall Streeters really want?
by RIchard Attias and NYF Team on October 17, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: economy, Kanye West, London riots, Naomi Klein, Occupy Wall Street, Susan Sarandon
New Yorkers breathed a sigh of relief last Friday at news that the owners of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement is based, had delayed a decision to clean it. Protestors had perceived the proposal as a preliminary act towards (…)
In China’s shadow: Q&A with Arvind Subramanian
by NYF Team on September 6, 2011 • 2 comments • Tagged as: Arvind Subramanian, Britain, china, Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China's Economic Dominance, economy, IMF, Suez crisis, usa
Arvind Subramanian is author of Eclipse: Living in the Shadow of China’s Economic Dominance, published this fall, in which he argues that China will surpass the US as the world’s leading economic power sooner than many people think. He is (…)
US may become a zombie economy: Q&A with Prof. Garett Jones
by NYF Team on August 8, 2011 • 2 comments • Tagged as: debt ceiling, Democrats, Garett Jones, Japan, Republicans, US economy, zombie economy
Garett Jones is BB&T professor for the study of capitalism at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. In the past, Jones has served as a staff economist to the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. As a commentator (…)
How can it feel this wrong? The debt-ceiling deal, and after
by NYF Team on August 3, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Barack Obama, debt ceiling, Democrats, jobs, Paul Krugman, Republicans, Stephen Colbert, US economy
This week we also announce a new feature, Tweets-of-the-Week, to which we would love you to contribute. More information below. The US debt ceiling debacle reared its head last month, just as markets breathed a sigh of relief on the (…)
Jobs? What jobs?
by NYF Team on July 12, 2011 • 14 comments • Tagged as: Bureau of Labor Statistics, debt ceiling, Foreign Affairs Magazine, Jared Bernstein, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Michael Spence, President Barack Obama, unemployment
A round-up of news & opinion. As the US government struggled to reach a decision over its debt ceiling, another and possibly larger problem loomed – employment figures for June were spectacularly unimpressive; or, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (…)
What do women bring to the table?
by Frieda on June 9, 2011 • Leave your comment • Tagged as: Bit.ly, Endeavor, Hilary Mason, Iceland, Johanna Sigurdardottir, Linda Rottenberg, Lynn Tilton, Patriarch Partners, Valerie Jarrett
Shortly after Iceland’s descent into financial chaos two years ago, the Icelandic people decided it was time for change, and replaced their erstwhile male prime minister with a woman called Johanna Sigurdardottir. An elegant 68-year-old, with coiffed white-gold hair, Sigurdardottir’s resume (…)
