Winged Thoughts From Ferrari to Red Bull’s AlphaTauri – Are Auto Brands becoming Mega-Luxury Lifestyle Brands? 13 Mar 2023 A new season of Formula One is upon us and as the adrenaline rushes through our veins while we cheer for our favourite teams, it’s difficult to ignore how these…
Winged Thoughts From Legacy to Liability: The Economic Impact of Hosting the Olympics 6 Mar 20236 Mar 2023 The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, in 1896, though they have a long history, dating back to 776 BC when the Greek city-states competed with each other…
Winged Thoughts What’s in the Name: Trademarks in Economics 27 Feb 2023 According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (Intellectual Property Statistics, n.d.), patent filing grew by 3.6%, trademarks by 5.5% and industrial design by 9.2% in 2021. About 65% of all…
Winged Thoughts Starbucks: The Bank That Sells Coffee 21 Feb 2023 The McDonald’s of coffee, Starbucks is the most famous coffee chain in the world with more than 21,500 stores in 64 countries across the globe. Starbucks claims that it is…
Winged Thoughts Goethe’s ‘Faust’ and the Mirage of Endless Economic Growth 6 Feb 2023 Goethe’s magnum opus, “Faust”, for the most part, is meant to be a philosophical text. It delves into the challenges of attaining self-fulfilment. The surprising part, however, is that it…
Winged Thoughts Galloping Unicorns: The Race to the End 30 Jan 2023 The economy is often characterized by financial imbalances, as one's profits are financed by another's losses. Those who gain have no incentive to bear in mind the sufferings of those…
Winged Thoughts Impending Economic Collapse: A Study Of the UK Crisis 23 Jan 2023 While people celebrated Rishi Sunak’s succession as Prime Minister, the Bank of England in November 2022 pointed out that the UK is in its longest recession since 1920. From Brexit…
Winged Thoughts Swiss Banks’ Voguish Appeal 16 Jan 2023 Swiss banks are most commonly associated with stashing of funds and huge sums of wealth by the affluent as a consequence of Switzerland's old secrecy laws. These laws are still…
Winged Thoughts From Chanel to Shein: The Rise of Fast Fashion 14 Nov 20225 Jan 2023 Fast fashion as a term and a phenomenon came into existence around two decades ago and refers to garments that are inexpensive, fashionable and sold for mass consumption. The term…
Winged Thoughts The ‘Y Factor’ 7 Nov 2022 French economist Jean-Baptiste Say, who first coined the term entrepreneur in 1800, said, “The entrepreneur is someone who shifts economic resources out of areas of low productivity, and into areas…