The outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, that began in Wuhan, China, may well turn into a global pandemic. More than 50 countries have confirmed cases of the virus, with the precise...
Inequality is the leading political and economic issue of the current era, yet debates about it have long suffered from a degree of imprecision. For example, the standard measure of inequ...
The terrible experience of the 1930s should remind us that trade and currency wars go together like a horse and carriage. Now that US President Donald Trump’s administration is fully impl...
Since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, Germans have looked back anxiously to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s and the rise of Nazism. Bu...
当前，经济和金融问题通常都是在知识库中，由一群不太关心安全问题或国家目标与世界目标之间相互作用的专家来讨论。但总有一天，经济学家将发现，就像两次世界大战期间那样，维护全球安全需要一套新的方法。
Economic and financial issues nowadays tend to be discussed in intellectual silos, by specialists who give little mind to security concerns or the interplay between national and internati...
PRINCETON – Après des années de paralysie pendant la crise financière apparue en 2009, l’Union européenne semble avoir retrouvé une certaine dynamique. L’an dernier en France, Emmanuel Ma...
勒庞指责马克龙想当“欧洲的副总理”。
The centrist Emmanuel Macron’s success in the first round of the French presidential election is likely to re-energize Europe. Unlike the other candidates, Macron does not just recognize ...
“Brexit means Brexit,” Theresa May, the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, insists. It is a simple and powerful slogan that sends an unmistakable message to all who have been hoping for...
With its vote to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom has staged a revolt so forceful that it will shake – and potentially even destroy – the European project. Indeed, as the UK p...
There was a palpable sense of discomfort at the latest G7 summit meeting in Ise-Shima, Japan. By the time the leaders of the world’s major developed economies meet again, there is no tell...
Throughout the industrialized world, governments are rushing to hand out money to the elderly. Germany’s government has not only reversed an increase in the retirement age intended to mak...
The British government’s recent announcement that a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership will be held on June 23 was quickly followed by a sharp drop in the pound’s value. Ex...
The price of oil is often regarded as a sort of thermometer to measure the health of the world economy. What is less often noted is that it can also serve as a barometer – warning of appr...
