As outlined on this site a month ago (see post of May, 27 ‘Brexit – Go For It!‘) I favor Britain’s decision to quit the EU. This week’s vote is a seismic moment for the UK, no doubt. But it’s far more than that. It’s foremost an urgently needed wake up call for the so called EU elites in Brussels, Paris or …

Population Growth – The Biggest Threat to Poverty Reduction Every day, more than 1 billion people go to bed hungry and almost 3 billion people face water scarcity for at least one month every year, points out the WWF. Despite the global birth rate falling to 2,5 children per woman, population growth will continue for decades, to 8,1  billion people by 2025 …

In this ‘Brexit’-week, there is much talk from both the ‘stay’ and the ‘leave’ camp about the ‘historic’ proportion of this referendum in the UK. It’s an important crossroad for Great Britain and Europe, no question. But I’m not so sure, the impact of a ‘leave’-vote would be that dramatic in the long run as currently projected. Only time will …

The steady increase in life expectancy is now close to, or above 80 years in many developed countries. This is a ‘natural’ consequence of a generally healthier lifestyle on one hand and medical advancements in biotech and genomics on the other. And this is a good thing, no question. But this constantly extended lifespan already puts upward pressure on savings …

I own an American Express ‘Gold Card’ for many years and had never any inconveniences. And quite frankly, I wouldn’t accept anything else from a product that’s carrying ‘gold’ in its name. Then, on a recent business-trip to Geneva, I met an old buddy of mine from business-school for lunch. After the delicious dessert, he insisted to cover the tab …

The Biggest Threat for Humanity are more Humans 400 ppm. It’s only a figure, but it’s a number that underscores the largest threat to humanity and biodiversity in the decades to come: the global climate disruption due to the buildup of human-generated greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Last year, the South Pole Observatory recorded for the first time, that global carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Life is beautiful; a longer and healthier life must be paradise and a superior goal to achieve. Therefore, anyone who rejects a ‘big idea’ in human development by  progressive science as extending the average lifespan to 140 years and more (see part I), risks to be labeled as something like a ‘hillybilly’. Hillybilly or not – I don’t care, since I …

If you plan to have children in the near future, your newborn girl or boy will see much more of the future you might think, far beyond the year 2100! And your grand-grandchildren will probably enjoy the beauty of our planet at least until the year 2300 and why not forever. Countries like Japan, Switzerland or Spain already have an …

Crude oil fell for a fourth day in a row yesterday – and settled below 50 USD/barrel – by concerns about Chinese growth (see Monday’s post) and the outcome of next week’s vote on Britain’s possible EU-exit (the campaign for the UK to leave the EU has a significant lead, a poll showed that 47% of likely voters said they will opt to leave the …

At the ‘Strategic Investment Conference 2016’ recently held in Dallas, geopolitical forecaster and strategist George Friedman said: ‘China is like Japan in 1989′. There are indeed many similarities between China today and Japan in the late 80’s, before Nippon went bust: a reliance on investment- and export-led growth; big current account surpluses; a real estate bubble (that led to highly indebted …