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If Britain is to lead in the energy transition, new technologies, and engagement with China, it must overcome several obstacles. A column by Dambisa Moyo.

Unlike his predecessor, president Biden understands that the transatlantic alliance is a bedrock of US economic and national security. A column by Melvyn B. Krauss.

Allowing families to have three children without also making other changes would likely not achieve the intended economic result, and could even make things worse. A column by Nancy Qian.

There are many lessons from the 1970s that shed light on today’s cavalier dismissal of inflation risk. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

Without binding international agreements, Germany and the EU risk becoming global guinea pigs whose fate will deter others from emulating them. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

Tackling great cross-country disparities is the real key to maintaining geopolitical stability in the twenty-first century. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

A CBDC should not be inaugurated until there are assurances that credit allocation, payments systems, financial-stability safeguards would function as smoothly as they do now. A column by Anne O. Krueger.

The world does need the United States and China to cooperate on climate change, but we should not harbor any illusions. A column by Minxin Pei.

The lessons of the intersection of finance and politics were not lost on Machiavelli, Shakespeare, and Smith. Will we continue to ignore them? A column by Harold James.

China remains – per capita – a poor country, despite its phenomenal headline GDP growth over the past four decades. A column by Nancy Qian.

President Biden's infrastructure plan is rife with opportunities for earmarked pork-barrel projects and crony capitalist corporate welfare. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

Russia today increasingly resembles nothing so much as the late USSR, ruled at the time by a different KGB man, Yuri Andropov. A column by Sławomir Sierakowski.