Monthly: February 2014

The issue of homosexuality is complex


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

MY dream is to become an international political economist who studies today’s engines of global economic growth –the emerging markets. This profession requires critical political and economic analysis,…

We should not trust politicians in the fight against racism


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

WE ARE ALL COGNIZANT OF THE fact that racism remains one of the enormous challenges facing the world today. It is, though without much historical facts in backing, my…

Bernanke used monetary policy effectively to avert the repeat of the Great Depression


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

THIS WEEK, JANET YELLEN WAS SWORN in as the new chairperson of the United States Federal Reserve (Fed). She’s the first woman to chair the institution since its establishment in…