Halfway 2025: How to read two quarters under Trump 2.0
July 7, 2025 • by Richard Baldwin in Economics & finance • 2 min read • 
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The mid-year economic outlook: How to read the first two quarters of Trump...
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Navigating disruption: The CFO role in a volatile world
Stephan Jansma, CFO at Trafigura, shares how today’s finance leaders must navigate global disruptions, manage liquidity in high-volatility markets, and engage with policymakers to keep supply chains moving....
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Navigating challenges and seizing opportunities in 2025Â
As technological capabilities accelerate and geopolitical uncertainties mount, the CFO’s role has never been more pivotal. Finance leaders must deftly balance immediate market pressures with long-term strategic priorities, leveraging data-driven insights to...
Venture capital: generate impact or push for a healthy return? Â
January 29, 2024 • by Valentina Masseretti , Anita Quas , Stefano Romito, Clodia Vurro in Economics & finance • 8 min read
Impact venture capital in Europe is generating lower financial returns than its traditional counterpart. Here are three possible reasons why....
Do aggregate economic profit outcomes align with established metrics about national business environments?
The economic profit measure developed in the Crux of Capitalism initiative is based solely on reported firm performance. As such it departs from established metrics of the national business environment...
Time to pay up for depleting our natural resources
As temperatures hit 53C in Furnace Creek in California’s Death Valley, it’s clear we need to act – and fast. Edoardo Chiarotti argues that companies need to pay a ‘vegetation debt’ to...
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How a firm’s true added value can benefit society
October 3, 2023 • by Simon J. Evenett, Felix Reitz in Economics & finance • 13 min read
Measuring economic profits rather than accounting profits is a far more reliable indicator of a company’s performance. And value-creating firms are well-equipped to help fund sustainability as well as making healthy returns...
Profit above responsibility: did Friedman win after all?Â
September 30, 2023 • by Jerry Davis in Economics & finance • 9 min read
Profits before all was the doctrine espoused in the 1970s, and while the look of big business in America has evolved beyond recognition, the motivations seem little changed....
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