Philip Ammerman

I stay in a lot of hotels each year. Some of these stays are planned; some occur by chance. Regardless of the country, one common factor...

Martin Wolf has a typically thoughtful article in the Financial Times on the benefits of a land value tax (Sunday, 6 February 2023). In...

For some years now, I've been wondering if economic statistics reflect reality. At least, reality as experienced by business managers and...

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

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

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

I was honoured to be profiled in the 2021 Global Entrepreneurship Report.

I learned this morning of the failure of the $ 15 minimum wage proposal in the Senate. I am not surprised. We are in the middle of a...

This article is being published on NavInvest Greece. I'm repeating part of it here with commentary simply because it reminds me of the...

I've just had one of those absurdly amazing customer experiences that is so rare today. Over Christmas, I ordered seven books from Amazon.fr

Back in February 2019, I published an article in the Successful Business Magazine in Cyprus on the Cyprus Citizenship by Investment...

A lot was made about this week’s announcement that Pfizer’s initial results of COVID vaccine testing showed a 90% protection against...

There is a good article on trade, manufacturing, unions and politics in The New Yorker by Dan Kaufmann: Will Trump's broken promises to...

Greece expects to receive € 32 billion from the Next Generation EU pandemic recovery plan (of which, € 19 bln are grants and € 12.5 bln are

The onset of tourism and the relaxation of social distancing rules show that a Second Wave of COVID-19 infections is starting.

I’ve been doing a quick reality check on some popular news stories this week. The more digitally saturated we become, the more important it

We keep talking about corporate social responsibility and being good corporate citizens. Do our investment and consumption policies reflect

Greece has re-opened for tourism. The number of daily new cases is rising (over one month ago).