Radu Craciun

(R*) China’s seemingly more efficient response to the pandemic refuels an older debate on the country’s economic success. The figures speak for themselves. According to the World Bank, 800 million people had been lifted out of poverty by 2018, making China the most important contributor to the global decline of poor population from 40 to […]

For decades, businesses liked to parade a slogan which was music to all stakeholders’ ears: “Human resources is our most valuable asset”. Those who know me, know that I am not the person to shy away from uncomfortable questions, but the uneasy question that I planned to put to you today was “To what extend […]

Do you know those parties where everybody is having a great time and there comes a time when they all naturally want to open the champagne? And a guy immediately says “hold on, do not open the champagne for another year, it is not time yet!”. And all of the sudden he/she becomes the most […]

We are in a difficult period of transition with no compass for guidance. Despite desperate attempts to make the future more predictable by looking at past economic crises, I am convinced without a doubt that no previous experience that mankind has lived through has any bearing on present and future developments. The events and changes […]

Some cities around the globe can offer a unique experience when it comes to dining out called “Dinner in the dark”. This is basically having dinner in a pitch black room which completely deprives you of using what is probably the most important sense, namely sight. Whatever their initial intention, confusion and stress, clumsiness and […]

The vernacular of those who deal in or broker investments cynically talks about “smart money” and “dumb money”. The former is managed by savvy professionals presumably able to take the best decisions regarding the amounts that they invest. Their choice of financial instruments is always substantiated, they correctly assess the return to risk ratio and […]

At the end of 2016 I put forward an idea that the intervening years has increasingly reinforced. It is, moreover, an idea that is strongly re-emerging as the world is being reshaped in the wake of the pandemic. I am referring here to the clash that this century is about to experience, a war which […]