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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 30, 20188 min read
Trump at Davos – The Rooster Crows from The Rooftop (#208)
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is the rooftop of the global elite of business, finance, politics and the arts. It is an
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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 20, 20189 min read
A Stormy 2017 - And 2018 Is Just As Bad (#207)
It was a stormy 2017, and apart from the hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons, Donald Trump was the biggest geo-political cluster bomb, rocking
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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 15, 20186 min read
It’s a Mad, Mad World, Full of ‘Fire and Fury’ (#206)
It is the start of the New Year, 2018, that is deep in the throes of old problems that continue to mount towards a messy climax. The problem
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Ashok Dhillon
Jul 26, 20176 min read
America’s Deal-Making & The Trump Factor (#189)
When America becomes insincere and unethical, the World becomes a more dangerous place. For decades now, certainly since the collapse of...
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Ashok Dhillon
Jun 30, 20176 min read
Is ‘Trumponomics’ Starting to Unravel? (#184)
Donald J. Trump became the improbable President of the United States on the back of some very aggressive promises to the American people.
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Ashok Dhillon
Jun 24, 20174 min read
Republican Crafted ‘TrumpCare’ – America Shafted Again (#183)
After hiding behind closed doors like boys up to no good and indulging in something shameful, the Republican leaders emerged after drafting
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Ashok Dhillon
Jun 16, 20172 min read
America’s Self Inflicted Wounds (#181)
The shooting at the Republican team baseball practice shocked the United States of America. The rest of the World was stunned by the inciden
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Ashok Dhillon
Mar 26, 20177 min read
The Unmasking of Trump (#166)
So it’s happened; Trump failed very publicly on his perceived strength as the ‘Great Negotiator’ doing what he is self-admittedly ‘great’...
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Ashok Dhillon
Mar 23, 20176 min read
Republicans, Caught Between Their Own Hard Places, & Trump (#165)
Republicans are not shy about their desire to keep Democrats from power at almost any cost, and in all fairness, as politicians, it is their
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Ashok Dhillon
Mar 14, 20174 min read
ObamaCare → TrumpCare → RyanCare → NoOneCare (#163)
The American Health-Care system is one of the worst in the developed World. It ranks consistently far down the list of the best developed
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Ashok Dhillon
Feb 23, 201711 min read
America At War - With Itself (#157)
For observers outside the United States, the daily drama that is playing out within, with the new President, his administration, all of its
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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 30, 20177 min read
Take the Wreaking Balls to the Economies (#153)
To those of us who follow these things, the past few years have been a study in the improbable becoming main-stream. In economic governance
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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 6, 20176 min read
The Trump Year - That Is 2017 (#150)
Coming into the ‘New Year’, 2017, we collectively bring all our baggage of previous years with us, and thus, from day one, the New Year is
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Ashok Dhillon
Aug 7, 201617 min read
As Bad News Mounts – Outlook Grows Dimmer (#131)
The latest economic and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers for the major economies were not reassuring. Even the United States which was
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Ashok Dhillon
Jun 1, 20163 min read
June, 2016 – Half Way Mark – The Score? (#121)
On June 1st, 2016 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary General Angela Gurria gave the following assessment in her
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Ashok Dhillon
Apr 14, 20166 min read
The Panama Papers – Embarrassing & Damaging Exposure (#108)
The massive leak of highly confidential documents known as the Panama Papers exposes the secret accounts of the rich and powerful, as well
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Ashok Dhillon
Feb 2, 20164 min read
The Other Political Disruptor – Bernie Sanders (#101)
Bernie Sanders would not have been considered real competition for the supposed ‘shoo-in’ Hillary, a year or even a few months ago.
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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 24, 20167 min read
Market Routs Bring Out the Reassuring Bankers (#99)
The recent multiple stock market routs have brought out the big international bankers, heads of stock exchanges, investment bankers and
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Ashok Dhillon
Jan 8, 20163 min read
Global Economies – Closing 2015 and Opening 2016 (#97)
The end of 2015 was the culmination of 7 years of vast injections of cash as stimulative measures, and near zero interest rates policy (ZIRP
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Ashok Dhillon
Dec 19, 20157 min read
Global Economies 2015 – Once More Off-the-Cliff, Dear Friends…IV-a - BRICs (#95)
The consensus in the mid-2000s was, the BRIC economies were going to take over from the advanced economies of the West as the new prime
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