Acepto, soy un gran fan del futbol argentino, pero esta columna no está escrita para homenajear al segundo mejor jugador de la historia del futbol: Lionel Messi, sino por el contrario, rescatar lo que significó la visita del 10 argentino en el país.  Simple, Messi rompió sin gambetas y sin sudar el mandamiento tico de [...]

2011 was full of surprises, many of them the good kind. But which ones will matter in the coming year? Here’s our pick of trends to watch. Who would have thought that some young people camped out in lower Manhattan with cardboard signs, a few sharpies, some donated pizza, and a bunch of smart phones could [...]

En contraste con sus previsiones cautamente optimistas, a finales de 2009, de una recuperación sostenida, el humor dominante en los círculos económicos liberales cuando termina 2010 es sombrío, si no apocalíptico. Los halcones fiscales han ganado la batalla política en EEUU y Europa, para alarma de los abogados del gasto público, [...]

Recent decades have seen a massive redistribution of wealth, imposing the cost of successive crises on the poorest. Enough! The end of 2010 brought renewed Washington rhetoric, media hype and academic me-too declarations about the US economy “recovering”. We’ve heard them before since the crisis hit in 2007. They always proved wrong. But recovery noises are [...]

For the coming year, rather than short-term resolutions, I’m issuing an ongoing challenge that is at once both personal and political. Despite much evidence to the contrary, and notwithstanding the relentless news cycle that we frequent, I believe that 2011 will be the year that the majority of people in the world demonstrably turn away [...]