Opinions

The current Italian Presidency of the European Union has made proposals to fight organized crimes on a continental scale. The ideas are good and make sense, but Italy's own record to date on this matter in Europe is not encouraging

Crowdfunding is a revolutionary change in the funding of startups: it widens the range of opportunities, without crowding out venture capitalists and other financial actors

Few banks dominate investment banking, and the big players are in the process of specializing to thrive under the new regulatory regime. This leaves each specialized subsector with only a couple of major banks that are once again too big and too interconnected to fail

Nobel Laureate Michael Spence retraces the very difficult years of the recent past, from the failure of Lehman Brothers to today's stagnation, with a particular focus on the situation in Italy

Both private investors and professional investors are increasing their acquisitions of real estate assets abroad. The slow Italian market has made it worthwhile to assess the variables of currency, macroeconomics and growth prospects to find the best deal

The shale gas revolution has created over 2 million jobs in the US, turning the country into a major gas producer. But it is hard to envisage the widespread extraction of shale gas in the EU, for a series of legal and environmental reasons