Shaking things up: geopolitics and the euro credit risk measure

Gravitational model offers novel way of assessing national and regional risks in new world order

Global political allegiances are forming and re-forming daily. It’s a geopolitical kaleidoscope, in which the implications for Europe – politically and economically – take a new shape with every turn. In the eurozone, with its annual public debt turnover of approximately €1 trillion ($1 trillion), these changes alternately strengthen or weaken the likelihood of its continuance – and that of its currency. As the balance of global power shifts, it seems fitting that we should start to measure that [...]