black-out» ceny-prądu» CO2» euro-2012» globalne-ocieplenie» kryzys-energetyczny» MAE» stagflacja» Międzynarodowa Agencja Energii opublikowała dzisiaj raport p.t. “Perspektywy technologii energetycznych. Scenariusze do 2050 roku”. Mogę się założyć o butelkę wina z najwyższej półki, że żadna gazeta o tym nie napisze w poniedziałek, a jak już napisze to będzie na 15 stronie i zajmie [...]

agflation» club-of-rome» crisis» energy» Ernst-and-Young» forecast» gordian-knots» growth» oil» I have not blogged for some time but I got new challenging job - partner at Ernst and Young - and in the evenings I was finishing a book called Gordian knots of the 21st century, should be published in English in late May, I will present [...]

agflation» barter» Egypt» food-supply» India» Libya» Syria» Ukraine» weather» In today’s Financial Times you can find an interesting article about countries securing food supplies by arranging barter deals. A quote: “Wheat traders said on Thursday that Ukraine was close to an agreement with Libya to devote up to 100,000 hectares of its own land to grow [...]

Africa» China» energy-crisis» globalization» India» Middle-East» Many people hope that the world governance designed by Americans and British after the second world war can be reformed. I am skeptical, Netherlands and Belgium together have more than 4% of the IMF/WB vote, which is more than China. The upcoming IMF vote and quota reform will change [...]

agflation» China» globalization» rice» SAFE» SWF» Financial Times article on Chinese Sovereign Wealth Funds: SAFE and CIC. A quote” “The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) is both competing with CIC for investments and complicating the sovereign fund’s attempts to defuse criticism of the way it operates and makes investment decisions. SAFE, which is under the central [...]

Denmark» education» globalization» intellectual-capital» life-long-learning» math» Poland» Demos Europa and Danish embassy in Poland organize a seminar on Monday. Both countries education ministers will make speeches and then we will have a debate titled: “Managing globalization - is education system up to the challenge?”. My speech is here . The short answer is “NO”. European education [...]

ceny-regulowane» energia» Gazeta-Wyborcza» kryzys» wzrost-gospodarczy» W dzisiejszej Gazecie Wyborczej jest bardzo ciekawy artykuł o możliwym kryzysie energetycznym, który może czekać Polskę w nieodległej przyszłości. Artykuł cytuje dramatyczny w tonie raport napisany przez szefów i menedżerów spółek sektora energetycznego. Raport zaczyna się od słów “w polskiej energetyce od kilku lat występują zagrożenia świadczace o [...]

blueprint» crisis-prevention» Fed» financial-markets» FSF» G7» globalization» monetary-policy» Paulson» regulator» regulatory-reform» Financial markets regulations are often very complicated and rarely make first page headlines, other than just the pure fact that they exist. But we have just seen a sequence of events that clearly indicate the possibility of far-reaching changes in supervisory regulations around the [...]

coordination» global-central-bank» global-inflation» globalization» monetary-policy» I have argued for some time that global inflation and global financial stability risks call for emergence of global central bank. It seems that this view is shared by monetary policy guru - John Taylor, author of famous Taylor rule - who argues in his recent paper that [...]

brain-tumor» cancer» e-economy» Khurana» medical» mobile-phone» study» Mobile phones are very useful. They even save lives, as people in danger can more easily contact the emergency. We all use mobile phones. However, a recent paper by Vini G. Khurana, a well know brain-tumor specialist warns, that heavy use of mobile phones may increase the likelihood [...]