Philip Ammerman

Reading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...

Dear Sir, Madam, I issued my one-way ticket ATH-LCA on Aegean A390 at an insanely high price (EUR 243.85 / Lite) for a 90 minute flight....

The Dallas Fed has an interesting article on empirical data and signs of housing asset price misallocation. In this case, the...

Those of you following Navigator Consulting's Digital Utopia / Digital Dystopia vision know that among the medium-term changes we see are...

According to National Debt Clocks, using US Treasury Data, as of 22 March 2022: Federal Debt reached $ 30.33 trillion Federal Debt...

Another depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...

Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...

A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...

Photo (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....

I worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...

Like so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...

Joshua Yaffa (@yaffaesque) has a brilliant article in The New Yorker entitled "The Great Siberian Thaw" on the effects of global warming...

Photo (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...

It’s December 24th and as I sit in my apartment in Limassol, cleaning up this year’s mess and reflecting on the next year, I understand...

Not that long ago, people in Greece and Cyprus prided themselves on being self-sufficient. My grandparents had a house in a remote...

An idle thought this morning. This year is the bicentennial of the Greek revolution. On 25 March 1821, the Revolution broke out (earlier...

According to research published by three Chinese scientists, 25 cities worldwide account for 52% of global greenhouse gas emissions. When...

What strikes me with every visit to the Acropolis Museum is how intensely our ancestors believed in a common set of values and ethos, and...

Robert Kagan has a brilliant opinion piece in the Washington Post on America's Constitutional Crisis. I can't think of another major...

Today I walked up past the Pnyx to part of the ancient deme of Melite. The remains of its streets and houses can be seen on the bare...