Radu Craciun

The US Treasury yield curve has inverted as 3-month yield tops the 10-year yield. This is the first time that this has happened since 2007, and the WSJ noted that the move had preceded every recession since 1975. As the clock is ticking towards a new recession (or crisis?) the question on everybody`s lips is: […]

At the beginning of the `90s when I started my studies to transition from being an aircraft engineer to a management consultant, one of my English professors conducted a survey. As a specialist in organizational behavior, he wanted to assess how much the then Romanian CEOs were aware of the fact that the future of […]

There is a long-standing misunderstanding in the public mind. It must be corrected because it is significant. Many people ask when the next crisis is going to strike again, without clearly discriminating between recession and a full-blown crisis. A recession is due to follow relatively soon because it is part of cyclical economic changes which […]

For some time now, Romania has been in the grasp of an illusion. It is based on the assumption that countries such as China or the Gulf states have so much cash available that their investment criteria are extremely loose.  Much more than the European requirements for granting development funds. To put it differently, they […]

I don`t think that we can build a pollution-free planet just on a voluntary change of behavior. This is a statement not likely to attract much sympathy. But frankly, I do believe that people will change their behavior on a massive scale only when driven by financial reasons. Many may do it on ethical grounds, […]

We live in a country which is aging and losing its population at an alarming rate. In the last 30 years the population fell by 3.5 million people and UN estimates show that by 2050 it will have lost another 3.3 million. That means that the country we live in will experience the 7th most […]

In 1997 the well-known CNN journalist and political analyst, Fareed Zakaria wrote a visionary commentary entitled “The rise of the illiberal democracy” which predicted the rise of a new category of leaders: popular autocrats intent on governing without much regard to the rule of law or civil rights. And that despite the fact that the […]