As we celebrate our second anniversary, we want to share the good news that entices us to continue improving and what we have learned from our mistakes.
During the past two years, we published 627 pieces covering a wide range of subjects: from the history of gold from 1891-to 2021, our analysis of risks and opportunities for the year, the ghost cities in China, Singapore PM’s warning that the US is miscalculating China over Taiwan, Canada’s handling of the supply chain challenges, the God equation, Lobbying in Washington, Decoding the brain, Merkel: the shadow of a giant, the US Presidential election and its turbulent, unforgettable conclusion, a celebration of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s 250 birthday, the need for a new system in Mexico, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its causes, potential outcomes and the wars to come, Larry Fink’s 2022 letter to CEO’s, Roger Penrose explanation on why the universe begin, Artificial Intelligence doing the homework, cataloging the infinite, 50 examples of corporations that failed to innovate, and much more.
One of our pieces was read in English directly on our website by 387,000 readers and counting. That same piece was translated to Spanish by at least seven readers who shared it with their contacts on WhatsApp, so there is no reliable data to report how many more read it otherwise.
During the last two years, we have seen the steepest meltdown of the world economies since 1929, followed by a fast recovery in most of them as a result of fiscal and monetary measures in the advanced economies, and currently experiencing its adverse effects, particularly the inflation caused by the deluge of money matched with a supply chain disruption and with the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine which sent the prices of oil, gas, grains, and cereals skyrocketing. The corrective measures applied globally are inducing a slowdown in the economies that will give us plenty of material for analysis for the next foreseeable future.
Along with it, there is political turmoil all over: the United States is still busy with the effects of the post-election affair of January 6, 2021, and the impact it could have on 2024; the United Kingdom, the fifth-largest economy, is uneasy with its tainted leadership and still abiding with the Brexit ordeal; Germany, the world’s fourth-largest, economy is beginning a new era post-Merkel; France and Italy don’t seem to match the interests of their peers in NATO versus Russia; Sweden and Finland abandoned more than 70 years of neutrality and applied for membership in NATO; Japan continues to be the third-largest economy after China, which endures, besides the economic effects of a lockdown for covid, a domestic credit bubble impacting its major economic engine and has Taiwan in high alert given the rhetoric of its main ally; the war in Ukraine has no end in sight and will continue to disturb the behavior of markets and economies worldwide, and the cryptocurrencies volatility have already taken a toll on speculators.
Metrics show that long pieces are hardly read in their entirety, so when a subject requires to be presented in more length, we break it into smaller sequential pieces.
We mourn the early passing of Manuel Suárez Mier, one of our founding contributors, and miss his weekly columns full of wit, acute criticism, and scholarly accuracy. His generosity included sharing his thoughts, rigorous economic and political analysis, and vast knowledge of economic and political history, and he always did it gracefully.
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