The global economy’s most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces....

Greece’s ballooning public debt is again throwing Europe’s financial markets into turmoil. But why should a debt default by the government of a small, peripheral economy – one which accounts for less than 3% of eurozone GDP – be so significant?...

Is China poised to surpass the United States to become the world’s largest economy? The International Monetary Fund recently predicted that the size of China’s economy would overtake that of the US in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) by 2016...

No matter how much and how hard Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and his spin doctors might have tried to wax lyrical about the diversity of views within the PN during last weekend’s party general council...

We live in an interconnected world, bound together by common risks, hopes and fears...

The English idiom you have to be cruel to be kind does not apply to this occasion...

We are sometimes so near events as they happen that we fail to grasp the overall significance....

One of the saddest aspects of the divorce referendum aftermath (fear not, this is not about that subject) was reading Eddie Fenech Adami’s ...

The day after the last general election three years ago, the government announced that Malta had joined Nato’s Partnership for Peace (PfP). ...

Paul Borg Olivier has told the Nationalist Party General Council that the Nationalist Party remains “the party that proposes values without imposing them”. ...