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Updated: June 18, 2025
If we don't do so deliberately the markets will do it for us, mercilessly. The Roller Coaster Market On Volatility and Risk By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Volatility is considered the most accurate measure of risk and, by extension, of return, its flip side. The higher the volatility, the higher the risk and the reward.
Europe's Four Speeds By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Pomp and circumstance often disguise a sore lack of substance. The three days summit of the Central European Initiative is no exception.
The Concert of Europe ushered in a century of globalization, economic growth and peace. Yet, alas, this time around, it has thus far been quite a cacophony. Europe's Agricultural Revolution By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The EU is forced to revamp its costly agricultural policies and attendant bloated bureaucracy.
Those left out in the cold are excluded for a long stretch. Rather than relying on the double panacea of NATO and the EU, they would do well to start reforming themselves by bootstrapping. Surveys like these are timely reminders of this unpleasant reality. Left and Right in a Divided Europe By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Technology helps reduce mortality rates, disease, and hunger among the destitute. This may well foretell the shape of things to come. Governments and Growth By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also Read: The Washington Consensus I. The IMF It is a maxim of current economic orthodoxy that governments compete with the private sector on a limited pool of savings.
It is a precipice and France has just taken us all one step forward. Deja V-Euro The History of Previous Currency Unions By: Dr. Sam Vaknin I. The History of Monetary Unions In most countries in transition, it has already replaced its much sought-after predecessor, the Deutschmark. The euro still feels like a novelty but it is not.
This is so clearly wrong, so manifestly forbidden, so patently immoral, that the film loses its urgent ambivalence, its surrealistic moral landscape and deteriorates into another banal comedy of situations. Dreamcatcher The Myth of Destructibility By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Read these essays first: The Habitual Identity Death, Meaning, and Identity Being John Malkovich "Shattered" Identity
The EU can punish the revenant nations of the communist bloc with the same dedication and effectiveness with which it has hitherto rewarded them. Ask Israel, it should know. Russia Straddles the Euro-Atlantic Divide By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Also Read The Janus Look Russia's Second Empire Russian Roulette The Security Apparatus Russia as a Creditor Let My People Go The Jackson-Vanik Controversy
The Green-Eyed Capitalist By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Conservative sociologists self-servingly marvel at the peaceful proximity of abject poverty and ostentatious affluence in American or, for that matter, Western cities. The French Revolution may have been the last time the urban sans-culotte raised a fuss against the economically enfranchised. This pacific co-existence conceals a maelstrom of envy.
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