Radu Craciun

As time passes and interest rates show no signs of decreasing, the impatience of the business environment and the population begins to grow. Both of them see their budgets affected by the increase in the cost of credit, which erodes the amounts available for investment or consumption. These frustrations make politicians become the mouthpiece of […]

Proponents of the unconditional embracing of artificial intelligence (AI) argue that this is a major technological leap forward that will provide people with a new tool to make them more productive and make their work easier. But such a simplifying, not to say simplistic, approach contains a pitfall. This important warning was given in a […]

A new term is now popular to describe the complex context in which we find ourselves: polycrisis. Well-known economist Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University, in a Financial Times interview attributed the term to Adam Tooze, an English historian and professor at Columbia University. The term polycrisis aims to capture […]

The process of quantitative tightening that the major central banks are currently engaged in makes many people worryingly remember one of Warren Buffett’s famous sayings: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked”. Such concern is understandable. The decade of ultra-low interest rates has fueled risky behavior on the part […]

2022 was a truly historic moment for the demographic evolution of the world’s most populous country. For the first time in 60 years, China’s population recorded a year-on-year decline. The Chinese ended 2022 850 thousand fewer. Unlike 60 years ago, when the population decline was caused by the famine that followed the “Great Leap Forward” […]

We are probably facing one of the most anticipated recessions. There seems to be a general consensus that 2023 will be the year we see a negative GDP growth for at least two consecutive quarters in a sizable part of the world economy. The IMF estimates that half of Europe’s economy and a third of […]

Human civilization has reached the tipping point in an area vital for its very existence: energy resources. Undoubtedly, the main issue is not depletion thereof, but managing it in such a way that the planet’s climate deterioration is cut short. And to take the challenges even further, such a transition has to be managed in […]