A conflict multiplier

The mass media often play with our senses, spreading headlines about conflicts all over the world. Playing with fear and anxiety, curiosity and envy. Conflicts are depicted like a daily show, with weapons and blood, with casualties and pain. All conflicts are depicted in a very simple way, as if we were children, as if…

Are we BELL or GIIPS ?

BELL : Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. GIIPS : Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Anders Aslund – economist from the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington D.C. – compared the performance of these formerly communist states with South Europe, plus Ireland. Over 2008-2012 period, BELLs economy followed a V curve. Meanwhile, GIIPS looked less exciting for…