Amol Agrawal

A tale of hubris, luck and ignorance

One cannot help notice three similarities in Covid-19 and the Global Financial Crisis

An African monetary union worth watching

Member-countries will need to work much harder to come anywhere close to the integration they are visualising with the common currency project. It is an important milestone in world monetary history

The central 'enemy'

Tweetstorm has become a new way for governments to express disappointment with central banks

Beware digital promise

With these big firms keeping data of whatever we do and increasingly of our spending as well, the society is becoming more vulnerable

The decline of economists

Economists are losing out as governments, increasingly averse to independent-minded central bankers, are choosing to give the job to administrators instead

English comeback

Just like Cricket England, the Bank of England converted the crisis into an opportunity