Philip AmmermanMay 9Josep Borrell's $ 300 billion Good IdeaReading the Financial Times this morning, I came across this: EU capitals should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange...
Philip AmmermanMar 22€20 per dayAnother depressing and entirely predictable conversation yesterday. I won't say where or with whom: it's irrelevant. The conversation was...
Philip AmmermanMar 20Ukraine Day 25 Although the outlook in Ukraine looks bleak, the message I am getting from a very wide range of sources is that the majority of Russian...
Philip AmmermanMar 1111 March 2022A quick update for my friends and associates. The last few months have not been easy. I've been struggling with exhaustion and some major...
Philip AmmermanMar 2HOW THIS ENDSPhoto (c) Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / CNN On February 24th, Russia mounted an unprovoked and unwarranted invasion of Ukraine....
Philip AmmermanFeb 26FIGHTING IN SEVERODONETSKI worked for the Rubezhnoye Board & Packaging Factory between 2001 and 2013 on a variety of projects, including three major investment...
Philip AmmermanFeb 25THE INVASION OF UKRAINELike so many others, I’ve been tied to the news about Ukraine. I’ve worked there between 1999 and 2018, mainly on investment projects,...
Philip AmmermanJan 7GET LULU TO CALL MEPhoto (c) Anadolu / Getty Images from The Guardian I wonder what kind of system invests billions in the illusion of being a great power...
Philip AmmermanNov 9, 2021The reverse of the medalAn idle thought this morning. This year is the bicentennial of the Greek revolution. On 25 March 1821, the Revolution broke out (earlier...
Philip AmmermanOct 16, 2021VALUES AND GOVERNANCEWhat strikes me with every visit to the Acropolis Museum is how intensely our ancestors believed in a common set of values and ethos, and...
Philip AmmermanMay 16, 2021THE NON-SAFE NON-PASSI am increasingly amused at the government’s invention of a coronavirus safety product where no product exists. The SafePass. We keep...
Philip AmmermanMay 4, 2021MOB FAILUREIt's difficult to understand just why systems here in Cyprus are underperforming so dramatically. On Sunday, I visited friends staying at...
Philip AmmermanMar 6, 2021In Favour of Minimum WageI 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...
Philip AmmermanFeb 21, 2021The Great Texas Electricity DebacleYou would think that somewhere, sometime there would be a limit to the criminal buffoonery that has become normal in the United States....
Philip AmmermanJan 12, 2021WARNINGS FORETOLDBack in February 2019, I published an article in the Successful Business Magazine in Cyprus on the Cyprus Citizenship by Investment...
Philip AmmermanJan 7, 2021Looking BackImagine that today is 7 January 2030 and we are looking back through the foggy reminiscences and self-invented truths that constitute our...
Philip AmmermanNov 3, 2020Election Day 2020Photo (c) BBC Today is Election Day in the United States, and voting stations will open soon. While most opinion polls show Joe Biden...
Philip AmmermanNov 1, 2020Jobs, Industrial Policy and VotesThere is a good article on trade, manufacturing, unions and politics in The New Yorker by Dan Kaufmann: Will Trump's broken promises to...
Philip AmmermanOct 28, 2020Alors, c'est la guerreToday is OXI Day, the anniversary of Greece’s entry into the Second World War. As with most anniversaries, it’s a time for reflection...
Philip AmmermanOct 1, 2020Cyprus Independence DayToday, Cyprus celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Great Britain.