“Unfortunately, I think it’s pretty interesting to buy a $7 pair of jeans if you’re not rich,” Ken Pucker, professor of practice at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and former chief operating officer of Timberland, told me last year
“Reading History to Understand the Present and Hypothesise the Future”. I had the pleasure of speaking at the Demetra Talk that took place in Milan on 25 March 2025 at the Sala Convegni of Palazzo Recalcati with the moderation of David Berera
The impression is that the pattern described in this article – ‘The position of West Papuans is very clear: we are a modern colony’ – is replicated in many of these realities. In other parts of Indonesia, in Malaysia, in Colombia, in Guatemala, in Nigeria and in Côte d’Ivoire
Import taxes on Canadian softwood lumber, now 14%, are set to rise to almost 27% this year
The bird flu that started in 2022 led to the slaughter of 140 million animals. Duties could drive up their price again and they are in short supply in France
Putin’s next targets are Moldova – whose history is unknown but significant – and especially Romania
In France, frozen products accounted for 24% of all cakes and other sweet baked goods in 2021. In the UK, 21% of desserts were frozen, compared to 13% in Spain and 17% in the US, according to research groups Gira and Global Market Insights
Tariffs are a defensive weapon, a boomerang that will only cause inflation, especially in the US. And a country that does not know how to interface with others, except by force, is a weak country
In many municipalities, water is already rationed. And we are still in the low season, as far as tourism is concerned, with Sicily being taken by storm for the holidays and the long bridge between Easter and the First of May, and with Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture 2025 which is expected to triple its number of presences. But with what water, if images of luxury B&Bs with water bins at the entrance for visitors and instructions in three languages on how to ‘wash up’ were already doing the rounds on the web last year?
Given the way the new administration is going about the environment by ‘running’ bird flu, cracking down on chemtrails (!!), denying climate change, and deforesting America, I’d say this is the last icing on the cake. The symbol of a nightmare
In the takeover of Auchan by Conad, Francesco Pugliese’s manners and methods towards staff and journalists were unspeakable. Practically no one talked about it. And the question I ask myself today, almost five years later, is: where were the Conad shareholders in an affair that resembled stalking?
High rents, speculation and the underworld are crushing Milan’s restaurant industry, the situation has been known for some time but is taking a turn for the worse
