Op-Edge
Op-Edge is a new series of opinion pieces from experts in all manner of world affairs and Patrick L Young (the founder of YM) has been invited to be one of their line-up from launch.
10t November:‘Trump must lure overseas capital back to US to appease Wall Street & Main Street’
7th February:Luck o’ the Irish, or a Celtic commitment to austerity?
20th January: World Economy: Cheer up, the worst is yet to come
15th January: Oil: Lubricating chaos around the world
27th October: Poland: EU’s poster child turns Euroskeptic
7th October: Trans Pacific Partnership – The Devil is in the details
24th August: Market mayhem: Summer blip or a serious dislocation?
30th July: Global economy 2015: As good as it gets
13th July: Greek Oxi-moron: When Bailout Means Servitude
6th July: The big fat Greek debt divorce
1st July: Greece: The options
30th June: Greek referendum: A liberal dose of democracy
28th June: Brussels: A bloody-minded ‘blob’ of costly dysfunction
23rd June: The IMF: A synchronized snub of Europe
20th June: Another brick in the wall: Border fences symptomatic of economic dysfunction
17th June: ‘Greece and EU believe in magic money tree that produces currency from nowhere’
6th June: Oil: OPEC’s Lengthy Suicide Note
26th May: Chicken or Egg? Brexit & the End of the EU
18th May: Polish voters show their disdain for politics as usual
12th May: Britain’s economic future
28th April: UK Elections: ‘Brexit’ or Ex-Brits?
21st April: Finland: Exhibiting strain of northern independence
7th April: Tsipras heads to Moscow hoping to get money from Putin?
1st April: All Fools Day – But who are the eurozone April fools?
24th March:Lee Kuan Yew – Political genius personified
18th March: ‘Mindless vandals outside and inside ECB building’
24th February: Greece – purgatory postponed
11th February: Greece negotiates debt ‘holding a gun to Troika’s head and behaving like a spoilt child’
29th January: ‘SWIFT is archaic, doesn’t stand up to modern digital age’
24th January: Uber: A small step towards world bankruptcy
22nd January: Davos: The blob’s big day out
20th January: Food fight: Has the EU endorsed its own genetic modification?
13th January: ‘Placing EU in euro currency straitjacket made life impossible’
12th January: 2015: A year of borrowed time?
7th January: Is the US economy overstretched?
31st December: Bitcoin 2.0: Revolution resumed
22nd December: Greece: Strangled by the euro-noose
19th December: Putin’s press conference for all seasons
17th December: Solstice searching: On market panics & currency collapse
14th December: Brussels: Austerity is for the little people
2nd December: Cheap oil, falling ruble, but ‘things not as bleak as they might seem’
25th November: A German ‘savior’ launches the Romanian reboot
11th November: Multipolar trade in new era: Where ‘Asian pivot’ becomes vital to prosperity
10th November: US foreign policy: The clash of righteous purpose
7th November: The austerity mirage
25th October: On Putin’s Valdai speech: The logjam in world diplomacy
23rd October: Europe’s panic button
20th October: Moscow: an innovators paradise
9th September: Sanctions tit-for-tat: Catch minus 22
2nd September: EU ‘mother-sucker’: Nanny state decrees dirty homes?
1st September: Mr Tusk goes to Brussels – but can he save the EU?
28th August: Black arts of banking: The higher rate dilemma
25th August: ‘With no tangible economy it will be hard for Ukraine to pay off its debt’
22nd August: Europe: A Union of Common Censorship
19th August: Europe’s reboot: Reform or die
18th August: European recovery is a sweet fairy tale
11th August: Bitcoin: Baffling or brilliant?
8th August: Sanctioning food: Fueling opportunity
5th August: The logic of modern diplomacy, aka sanctions 101
30th July: Germany’s trade surplus: Feeding euro crisis
25th July: Australia repeals the carbon tax blob. For good?
22nd July: New Development Bank ushers in a new era of money
16th July: ‘US wouldn’t press for EU sanctions on Russia if it had any money risked’
10th July: France: A last tango to economic disaster
9th July: Banking on sanctions – a step too far?
4th July: Bitcoin revolution wins over world
26th June: Sex and drugs at the core of the EU’s economic development?
24th June: ‘EU is completely politically and economically irrational dealing with Russia’
18th June: Ukraine’s gas: Reversal of fortune?
10th June: EU presidential hopeful blind drunk on Europhilia?
9th June: ‘EU wants to decide who owns the pipeline operating outside it’
5th June: Kindergarten politics: The juvenilia of the G7
30th May: Eurasian Economic Union is wake-up call for US
28th May: Eastern energy pivot threatens the US dollar
26th May: EU elections: DINOsaurs duck first meteorite
21st May: Russia-China deal: Even energy pivots East
19th May: Chasing the rainbow: On tax, toothpaste and private bankers
13th May: Can the EU build an empire without a bearded lady?
5th May: Euroskeptics: Fractious factions
4th May: German energy: Unsustainable eco-suicide
1st May: Scarlet letters: US tool that usurps sanctions?
30th April: BRICS building parallel IMF
29th April: Euro elections: Searching for President Nemo
28th April: ‘Obama and Kerry fail to show leadership qualities required to settle Ukrainian issue’
22nd April: US-Japan: Pivoting apart?
21st April: EU Super-state: Single-market Stalinism
18th April: ‘More sanctions against Russia is mutually assured economic destruction’
16th April: Bond bubble bursts anew
14th April: ‘Time for a new recession’
8th April: Euro-Catch 22: Mario Draghi’s woes over QE
4th April: Upside down: America’s war on globalization?
31st March: Free-fall: IMF to accelerate Ukraine’s economic collapse?
28th March: Money from the gods: Iceland’s auroracoin & a new kind of independence
25th March: Breaking bad: Separatists or pioneers of the future for microstates?
20th March: Why did Europe choose the chaff over the wheat?
17th March: Chinese banking liberalization: Time to invest in the walking dead
13th March: EU stagnation: Why Soros says the Euro threatens the Union
11th March: Dead budget walking: Obama abandons hope, gives up on change
5th March: Ukrainian people will bear brunt of IMF deal with tough austerity
4th March: What price taxation? Swiss privacy and the truth about offshore banking
3rd March: No money, no jobs: Europe’s growing desperation
28th February: Why govt wants to steal your money
27th February: Financial fairy dust: G20 detached from real world
24th February: Death finance: Bankers have never been so insecure
21st February: UK Green Party: ‘Ecoloons’ with totalitarian mentality
20th February: Debt adjusted: EU rebrands bankruptcy
13th February: Swearing bankers…but not how you might think
10th February: Foreign investors ditching France for Russia
7th February: Fed’s taper tosses emerging markets
5th February: ‘Corruption lessons from a broad range of experts’
31st January: EU bank reforms reveal hypocrisy, even from left-wing European govts
27th January: Davos groupthink dangerously out of touch
23rd January: Day of reckoning for ‘Kickcanistan’?
16th January: Time for EU to rebalance – or face Brexit
13th January: Latvia brings growth to the eurozone
7th January: Germany: The next sick man of Europe?
31st December: The Year of Bitcoin
25th December: South Sudan: Driving energy insecurity
18th December: Pitchfork and pizzas – the death of Italian dolce vita
16th December: US minimum wage issue – a symptom, not a solution
9th December: South Stream: EU gas or a lot of hot air?
8th December: Ukrainian people being used as pawns by the EU and US
3rd December: Dutch downgraded: EU shoots messenger
29th November: Bitcoin bubbles but will it burst?
23rd November: EU should focus on internal problems, not Ukraine ‘vanity project’
13th November: Bitcoin: Merging with the mainstream?
7th November: Europe going to extremes: Are Far Right set to change face of Brussels?
23rd October: US govt beating up bankers for its own mistakes
17th October: If you think the world of banking will become utterly transparent – that’s false
10th October: America’s trade tango with Tehran
2nd October: America’s shutdown: ‘US government is like bickering teenagers’
2nd October: The American Empire: Grinding To A Halt?
25th September: Arctic quest: The Great Game points north
13th September: Which is stronger: The EU or the law?
9th September: US sanctions only make Arab people supportive of dictatorships
4th September: Why good banking is in the shadows ahead of G20
3rd September: G20: West to present its tax suicide note
20th August: Ultimate confidence: World won’t go for gold standard anymore
22nd July: Motown: A broken record in the rust belt
11th July: Move along please! There’s no crisis here
2nd July: US-EU fallout: Eavesdropping on the free trade
24th June: Ben Bernanke: Banks, bonds and a big breakdown?
19th June: A small step for men, a giant leap for world trade
18th June: Immigration: The Great Horde of Prosperity
24th May: Bitcoin: Fad, fraud or the future?
16th May: France: Double dip or the edge of the abyss?
10th May: Fear and Loathing in the EU
1st May: Iceland’s economic thaw a thorn in EU’s side
24th April: The end of austerity – dream or default? 
23rd April: Cyprus & bailouts: That great sucking sound
9th April: Eurozone: Death by a thousand cuts
6th April: Japan’s desperate, dangerous experiment
29th March: EU’s kleptocratic intentions to result in confidence crisis
29th March: ‘A giant sucking sound as money exits Cyprus’
18th March: Cyprus levy on savings: ‘An armed robbery by Brussels’
18th March: Cyprus trust vote bailout
