Cristiano Ronaldo goes to play in the desert, in a league that, as a whole, is not worth the sum of AC Milan and Inter Milan, with a number of spectators comparable to the Hungarian league, with the only international outlet of playing a continental cup against
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Forty-one years have passed since the morning when the body of banker Roberto Calvi was found hanging from the Black Friars bridge in London. It then took decades to prove that it was murder and not suicide. Certainly it is yet another tragic death in a group
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What happened to Iceland’s financial system after the 2008 sinking, when the country was struck by an iceberg that destroyed the entire economy overnight[1] ? How is it possible that a nation of less than 400,000 inhabitants, but as large as Bulgaria or Greece, managed in the
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The invasion of Ukraine is a comprehensive strategic move by the Russian government, carefully prepared, and for years, and reasoned out in minute detail. It is not only about finding political, diplomatic, and military allies, but also about finding companies that will keep the Russian economy moving
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Do you want to be fashionable? Do you want to hide your savings together with those of the most powerful men on earth? Do you want somewhere exotic, with a sea view, full of sunshine? Then go to Tortola, in the Virgin Islands, and you will find
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The sanctions imposed on Russia are hardly having any visible effect on Putin’s belligerent decisions, and the war is costing tens of billions of euros. In part, these are cynical investments, because Europe and the United States, if (as we all hope) Ukraine wins, will get significant
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On 20 September 1870, not only was the capital of the new Italian state conquered, but a secular theocracy, comparable to the one currently in power in Iran, which made arbitrariness and corruption the oil needed to run the apparatus of a despotic and inefficient state, was
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Among the many secret stories of united Italy, there is one that never seems to end: that of the Banco Ambrosiano, which was the crossroads of the interests of the Holy See, Freemasonry, the DC, the Mafia and Opus Dei. It never ends, because the Ambrosiano’s money
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We often hear about global warming, the greenhouse effect, rising seas, without giving due weight to these phenomena. Living in the part of the world that depends on the whims of the fossil fuel magnates, we rejoice in recent months if man-made climate change causes longer summers
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When Napoleon Bonaparte took power in Paris, one of his first statements was to express his admiration for San Marino – a unique example of freedom and democracy in the history of Europe[1]. Something of which the inhabitants of Mount Titano are justifiably proud, but which has
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