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Our country went through one of the most tense periods in its recent history in 2025, a year in which political instability, budgetary imbalances and inflationary pressures formed a dangerous mix that pushed the economy to the limit of support....

The global economy we knew in the first two decades of the 21st century - an open market where capital moved freely, technology spread rapidly, and prices and interest rates tended to converge - no longer exists. In its place has emerged a world...

From US-China Tensions to Conflict in the Middle East, Geopolitical Instability Is on the Rise.

Geopolitical tensions are putting global trade in the spotlight, as many countries seek, in the current context, to diversify their imports.

Company bankruptcy is no longer about bad luck or a bad cycle, but about the hard arithmetic of expensive debts, shows data published by the credit risk analysis company Coface in its January 2026 report "Corporate insolvencies expected to...

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) entered a strong upward trend in the second part of last year, after the outcome of the presidential elections in May confirmed the country's pro-European trajectory. The BET index, which...

The sharp decline in gold since the end of the past week (and which continues) is directly attributed to changes at the top of US monetary policy:

The price of gold rose by 27% in the first month of 2026 alone, after an advance of over 60% in 2025, and last week it traded at historical highs of over $5,500 per ounce, a context in which central bank gold reserves are worth much more than at...

In fact, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to Beijing these days, officially presented as a "reset” of economic relations between the United Kingdom and China, does not signal a return to globalization.

Trade tensions, geopolitics and political uncertainty top the list of risks that worry billionaires in 2026, according to a survey conducted by Swiss bank UBS, cited by visualcapitalist.com. The aforementioned source, which highlights the factors...

In a context of global stress, the dollar is strengthening as a safe-haven asset, while the euro remains high not through performance, but through constraint. For those who follow the exchange rate, the stakes are no longer strictly the leu-euro...

The accelerated disorganization of global architecture raises a legitimate question: Are we witnessing a succession of coincidences, or the convergent manifestation of different ways of interpreting the same structural transformation of the...

Global disorder is entering a phase of accelerated rearrangement. The American pillar no longer ensures stability, and the post-war architecture is fragmenting under the impact of recent decisions from Washington. The withdrawal of the United...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened again in the currency market to support the rupee, in a context marked by persistent capital outflows from portfolios, weak regional signals, and uncertainties stemming from trade relations with the...

Systemic uncertainties mark the year 2026, foreshadowing a future with multiple probabilities, in which economic, political, technological, and environmental developments are dominated by major risks.

Despite the moderate predictability of most global risks, there are also extreme events, difficult to anticipate, but with devastating impact-known as "black swans.” In 2026, a few such hypothetical scenarios deserve consideration...

The desperation with which Trump plunges into conflicts suggests that the financial and economic situation of the United States is far more serious than we had imagined.

The US economy, at $30.6 trillion, is larger than that of China, Germany and Japan combined, with real US GDP set to grow by 2% this year, according to visualcapitalist.com, which notes that the world economy will reach $117 trillion this year....

The economic and financial situation of our country has recognized a revival during the last month of autumn, even if the Government continued to allocate amounts for various investments financed from the national budget and from European funds....

The third quarter of 2025 was dominated by the efforts of the Government led by Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan to restore macroeconomic balance through firm, often unpopular measures. After a first semester marked by a deficit of 3.68% of GDP and...

September brought to the forefront of the political scene one of the toughest confrontations between the Government, the opposition and society in recent years. The cabinet led by Ilie Bolojan entered at full speed into a succession of decisions...

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange reached new historical records in the last month of summer, followed by the first more consistent profit marks of the upward trend that began in May, with the confirmation of our country's...

The end of the summer calendar recorded a tense economic and political reality in our country, in which the governing coalition was forced to combine financial stability measures with attempts to restore confidence in the population and external...

The geopolitical and economic storm that is shaping up around the US dollar is taking on unexpected proportions after the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (ed. - Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - SCO), which took place...

Chinese investors are driving the country's stock markets to grow strongly in 2025, even as international investors have been discouraged by years of underperformance and persistent deflationary pressures, according to an analysis published...

The price of gold has soared over the past two and a half years, up 34% in the past twelve months, hitting new all-time highs, most recently in April 2025 at $3,500 per ounce, as central banks and investors seek safety amid economic uncertainty...

Donald Trump's announcement over the weekend of a meeting with Vladimir Putin, to be held on August 15 in Alaska, took European leaders by surprise and sent a clear message: the current US president does not intend to consult with NATO...

Tensions in the education system continue to rise. Education Minister Daniel David met with the leaders of the three major trade union organizations in the field - the Federation of Free Education Unions (FSLI), the "Spiru Haret"...

The agreement between Donald Trump, the US President, and Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, on the introduction of a 15% customs tariff on almost all European products imported by the US (except for aluminum and...