Monthly Archives: February 2022

A cautionary Pyramid tale from Albania

Albania emerged from the collapse of communism in the early 1990s and it had little or no controls and experience with capitalism. With an unaware population and no regulatory checks, the country, according to YouTube channel Rare Earth, saw an explosion of Pyramid schemes where even politicians, government officials and …

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Realism About Foreign-Policy Realism and Ukraine

CAMBRIDGE – Was the current crisis in Ukraine caused by a lack of realism in US foreign policy? According to some analysts, the liberal desire to spread democracy is what drove NATO’s expansion up to Russia’s borders, causing Russian President Vladimir Putin to feel increasingly threatened. Viewed from this perspective, …

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