Tell me how you drink, I’ll tell you who you are

I have interviewed the CEO of a investment management firm. We were speaking about the need of investment in infrastructure (mainly water), and how good, or bad, the situation is around the world.
And then he made a more specific example:
The water systems, the utilities worldwide, are sort of a barbell. There’s roughly 25% of the […]

China, Brazil, Credit Risk Management and the BIG crisis

In 2005, I was volunteering in Brazil. I couldn’t buy the Economist every week, so each issue I could find was read carefully for more than a week. The issue about China had the honour to stay in my backpack for three weeks, while I was travelling around the country with the highest interest rates […]

The Future of TV and the Italian cusine

I was wondering –why all Italian men in their 30s (or beginning 40s) are so familiar with cleaning products, food products, different kinds of brooms (il mocio vileda!), toilette paper and so on?
Then I understood why: we have to thank Silvio Berlusconi and the introduction of private TV channels in Italy in the late 1970s.
Movies […]

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