Most client questions relate to likely outcomes for the euro zone debt crisis, the timing of key political and central bank meetings, and the adequacy of the bailout funds.
Some elements of the crisis – the timing of the coup to coincide with the president's absence at a regional summit, the fear of ethnic tensions exploding – seem to hark back to Burundi's unstable past.
As for the mooted link to the financial crisis, the timing is dodgy: America's poor fell behind in the 1980s, the credit bubble took off two decades later.Message to DavosThese nuances suggest that rather than fretting about inequality itself, policymakers need to differentiate between its causes and focus on ways to increase social mobility.
He insisted he remained "firmly committed" to "bringing back more powers" from Brussels, but on demands for a referendum, he said amid an economic crisis the timing was wrong and Britain's national interest was to be part of the EU.
How should a society respond to a looming crisis of uncertain timing but of catastrophic proportions?
Not only did the comment come across as faint praise for a long-serving public servant who guided the nation's monetary policy through a severe crisis, but its timing could also hardly have been worse.
This incident still has the potential to turn into a crisis and the timing could not have been worse.
The agencies have lost credibility in reaction to their poor performance in assessing financial markets risks throughout the current crisis, their poor timing, particularly ahead of a crisis, and a lack of transparency in assessing emerging market risk in the past.
Diagnosing Volkswagon's "Dieselgate" reveals how crisis occur: their timing, the players, the impact and the potentials for recovery.
Ms. Reinhart and Mr. Rogoff had credibility thanks to a widely admired earlier book on the history of financial crises, and their timing was impeccable.
