Browsing: US

It has truly been a year like no other, with the pandemic dominating not just every news cycle but each…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Nov 27, 2020[/box] American billionaires haven’t been just immune to the pandemic, they have been thriving…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Dyfed Loesche, Nov 4, 2020[/box] The 2020 US Presidential election is one of the most important in decades…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, Nov 2, 2020[/box] This regularly updated infographic keeps track of the countries with the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Aug 10, 2020[/box] The Johns Hopkins University looked into the number deaths per 100,000 of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Jun 26, 2020[/box] In a landmark case decided this week, U.S. citizen Kara Bos…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, May 12, 2020[/box] This regularly updated infographic keeps track of the countries with the…

Does the last Wednesday speech of the US President Donald Trump in which he declared that the USA is 100%…

Without mincing words, it may be said that Pakistani readers/viewers get no clue of the current United States-Iran conflict. To…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Jan 6, 2020[/box] After the death of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Liang Zhao, Lund University[/box] One of the hottest topics in cryptocurrencies is the prospect of major…

Presently, US-China trade war is the single most important factor that is governing oil demand and hence its international price.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Nov 8, 2019[/box] Gloomy export numbers from China suggest that the world’s biggest trading nation has…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Oct 7, 2019[/box] U.S. farmers are struggling to replace Chinese buyers of their products. As…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Oct 7, 2019[/box] An estimated $630 billion worth of traded goods is caught in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, Sep 26, 2019[/box] The newly released Wealth-X report on the world’s ultra rich population reveals the…

According to CNBC, when the world was beginning to believe that Sino-US trade tensions were easing, Chinese officials cut short…

As of 2019, the United States remains the dominant superpower of the world. It controls the most formidable army and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Lorraine Martin, Queen’s University Belfast and James Reihill, Queen’s University Belfast[/box] The White House recently announced…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Sep 13, 2019[/box] The U.S. Census Bureau has published a report into income and poverty levels across the…

Global commodity prices plunged 5.3% on a monthly basis in August, as against 1.5% increase in July. During the month…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Sep 2, 2019[/box] The U.S. is once again the country imprisoning the most people as a…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Sep 3, 2019[/box] It’s back to school season and across much of the world,…

Pakistan Stock Exchange closed in red for the seventh consecutive month and lost 6.8% during August 2019, which was also…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 26, 2019[/box] A research paper published last month in scientific journal Obesity Review suggest…

Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) under Fourth Industrial Revolution is driving major paradigm shifts across all sectors and countries. This technology…

In June, 2019, the Chinese President Xi Jinping made his historic visit to meet President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg,…

The contribution of American MNCs in Pakistan has been very significant not just in monetary terms but from qualitative angle…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Winnie King, University of Bristol[/box] The US has escalated its trade war with China by accusing…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Felix Richter, Aug 1, 2019[/box] While there is officially no such thing as a world currency,…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Jul 31, 2019[/box] The ad market in the United States is two and a half times…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman,  Aug 2, 2019[/box] Yesterday President Trump announced an additional 10 percent tariff on…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Gita Gopinath Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund (IMF) This article is published in collaboration with IMF…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Jul 22, 2019[/box] Only seven nations (or political unions) have been to or orbited…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Chang Zhang, University of Warwick and Nora von Ingersleben-Seip, Technical University of Munich[/box] The United States…

Finally, Pakistan managed to garner much-needed support from three-member states of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to avoid being…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, Jun 17, 2019[/box] Currently, there are an estimated 13,890 nuclear warheads in the hands of just…

Since Donald Trump administration refused to extend waivers for Iranian oil exports, the United States and Iran have been giving…

“To us, the most important thing is to do our job well” “Our relationships with US companies won’t be destroyed…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Apr 30, 2019[/box] While most Americans know May 1st as May Day, a holiday…

Many analysts believe that the decision of US President, Donald Trump to end the exemptions regarding buying Iranian crude oil is a double-edged sword.…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, Apr 18, 2019[/box] About 52 percent of all e-mails sent worldwide last year were unwanted…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Felix Richter, Apr 15, 2019[/box] Millions of procrastinators in the United States may be in for a…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Apr 1, 2019[/box] According to a new study by brand-valuation consulting company Brand Finance, Netflix was the fastest growing…

A delegation of Canada Pakistan Business Council (CPBC) visited Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) to open the trading session with the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Christopher Foster, University of Manchester and Shamel Azmeh, University of Manchester[/box] At the heart of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Mar 11, 2019[/box] Plastic bans are a contentious issue. Most often, discussions about the use…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Mar 11, 2019[/box] The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has released new data on the volume…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Mar 11, 2019[/box] The smart home market in the U.S. brought in close to 5 billion dollars…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Mar 4, 2019[/box] DSL makes up 38 percent of fixed broadband subscriptions across OECD countries…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Ceri Parker Commissioning Editor, Agenda, World Economic Forum[/box] It’s one of the biggest threats to the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Feb 8, 2019[/box] Tropical cyclones have done the most monetary damage compared to other natural…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Katharina Buchholz, Jan 14, 2019[/box] Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to curb the Chinese trade surplus with…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Dec 14, 2018[/box] For the first time social media beat out print as an avenue…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, Dec 3, 2018[/box] In the race for artificial intelligence dominance, it is currently just a two horse…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Sarah Feldman, Nov 30, 2018[/box] Saudi Arabia has pushed oil production to an all-time high, causing the price…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Michael Kitson, Cambridge Judge Business School[/box] Tensions loom over Argentina, which plays host to the 2018…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Samir Saran President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) This article is part of the Annual Meeting of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] Brian Bolton, IMD Business School[/box] Kudos to California, where the state governor, Jerry Brown, recently…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Oct 8, 2018[/box] Last year, 78,778 doctoral degrees were awarded in the United States…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Niall McCarthy, Oct 5, 2018[/box] As the leaves turn shades of yellow, crimson and rusty-red, the heat…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Johnny Wood Writer, Formative Content[/box] Video gaming has come a long way since the launch of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Martin Armstrong, Sep 20, 2018[/box] The U.S. announced the latest round of trade tariffs to be imposed on imports…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Published in collaboration with the Atlantic Council[/box] This article is part of the World Economic Forum’s Geostrategy platform…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Steve Barha CEO, Instant Financial[/box] From San Francisco to South Africa, the issue of fair pay is the subject…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration the International Institute for Strategic Studies[/box] This article is part of…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””] This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House[/box] This article is part of the World…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Yuka Kobayashi, SOAS, University of London[/box] China first built its famous Great Wall in the Qin…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]This article is published in collaboration with Chatham House. This article is part of the World Economic…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Arturo Bris, IMD Business School[/box] The US has leapfrogged Singapore and Hong Kong to top IMD’s…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Negar Habibi, King’s College London[/box] Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally pull the US out of the…

The recent decision of the US President Donald John Trump to pull its country out of the nuclear deal signed…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Negar Habibi, King’s College London[/box] Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally pull the US out of the…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Jonathan Perraton, University of Sheffield[/box] Economic acrimony has been bubbling between the US and China since…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Damian Tobin, SOAS, University of London[/box] The current trade dispute between the US and China is…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Felix Richter, Mar 12, 2018[/box] Last Friday, thousands of people in the United States and…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Felix Richter, Mar 15, 2018[/box] Having repeatedly stated his discontent about his country’s role in…

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Michael Johnson Former UK Government trade negotiator and adviser on International Trade Policy[/box] President Donald Trump…