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1 week ago | 
hindustantimes.com | Alexis Crow
Despite a seemingly endless supply of and demand for private credit, the rapid expansion of the market has been a cause of concern for some regulators and executives. Should investors be worried? This brief explores certain aspects of private credit that warrant a close look—including the retailisation of the market and the current interest rate environment. It highlights the implications for financial stability, including the potential for finance to be rendered a disservice to the real economy.
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2 weeks ago | 
weforum.org | Alexis Crow
Partner, Chief Economist, PwCMany countries, companies and investors have pivoted towards services amid an uncertain global economic landscape and rise in protectionism. The rise in protectionism and trade restrictions has largely focused on goods, but is this shift into everything as a service the wisest path forward?
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2 months ago | 
weforum.org | Alexis Crow
Despite concerns about Germany’s economic stagnation, the country has strong attributes, with the new government’s fiscal reforms having the potential to drive economic revival. Germany’s economic model faces significant disruptions from high energy costs, shifting trade dynamics and competition, necessitating strategic adaptation.
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Feb 25, 2025 | 
or-f.org | Alexis Crow
IntroductionThe financial cycle is never eradicated, nor is financial instability ever really extinguished. On the contrary, financial risk moves like liquid mercury out of certain entities and into others. And increasingly credit-fuelled economies are especially prone toward credit crises. In many ways, regulation can be backward-looking, and thus can often be directed toward the last crisis.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
or-f.org | Alexis Crow
Introduction Global growth has been markedly resilient in recent years. Despite rising trade restrictions,[a] sudden economic stops related to the COVID-19 pandemic, two hot wars in Europe and the Middle East, the energy crisis in Europe and the corollary shocks to price stability—global growth has held up reasonably well, hovering at around 3.2 percent.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
orfonline.org | Alexis Crow
Introduction Global growth has been markedly resilient in recent years. Despite rising trade restrictions,[a] sudden economic stops related to the COVID-19 pandemic, two hot wars in Europe and the Middle East, the energy crisis in Europe and the corollary shocks to price stability—global growth has held up reasonably well, hovering at around 3.2 percent.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
orfonline.org | Alexis Crow
Introduction: Keynes’s Vision 2030 In 1930, English economist John Maynard Keynes famously posited that by 2030, people would be working a 15-hour work week (or an average of three hours per day).[1] Writing during the Great Depression, Keynes made his forecast at a time of deep “economic pessimism”, and in his lectures described a “new disease” of “technological unemployment”, according to which investments designed to “economise” the use of labour would unfold at an increasingly rapid...
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
weforum.org | Alexis Crow
Despite the return of interstate war in Europe, resurgent conflict in the Middle East, and rising trade tensions, fragmentation has not spilled over into international finance. The USD continues to remain unchallenged as the world’s reserve currency, despite a rise in geo-economic fragmentation. But the role of 'king dollar' in the medium to long term is not immutable, carrying with it repercussions for investors across the globe.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Alexis Crow
Opinion & Analysis4 hours agoThe Coming Battle Over the ArcticTIME - Max Bergmann • 4hSince the end of the Cold War, the High North has been defined by the idea of “Arctic exceptionalism,” the common understanding that the region had unwritten rules, beliefs, and history that protected it from great-power rivalry. Under this shield, China emerged in recent years as a new power in …Technology4 hours agoMy Mom Says She Loves Me. AI Says She’s Lying.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
cre.org | Alexis Crow
Introduction Amidst an ensuing cost of living crisis in many geographies, a higher for longer interest rate environment, and the sustained shocks of inflation resulting from the pandemic years and the return of interstate war in Europe, a feeling of economic insecurity pervades many societies today.
