International Selection

A continued rise in the inflation rate in 2015 would not be surprising; the Fed might raise the federal funds rate more rapidly and to a higher year-end level than its recent statements imply. A column by Martin Feldstein.

Trading goods, services, and labor directly via online platforms is becoming big business. This needs a certain legal framework. A column by Ayesha Khanna.

What really matters is whether the jobs outside of the robot-computer economy – jobs involving people’s mouths, smiles, and minds – will remain valuable and in high demand. A column by J. Bradford DeLong.

The stimulus-versus-austerity debate is an old one. Today, ideological questions about fairness and responsibility are trumping pragmatic discussion of the best way forward for everyone. A column by Harold James.

Stagnating middle-class wages and family incomes are a major factor behind the US economy’s slow recovery from the 2007/09 recession, and pose a threat to long-term growth and competitiveness. A column by Laura Tyson.

In the next few months, the buoyant optimism pervading financial markets may prove to be justified. Unfortunately, it is more likely that investors’ outlook is excessively rosy. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

In 2007, nobody foresaw the decline in growth rates and potential output that statistical and state agencies are now baking into their estimates. It is time to call what is happening by its true name. A column by J. Bradford DeLong.

Ultimately, a central bank’s anti-inflation policies can work only within the context of a macroeconomic and political framework that is consistent with price stability. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Central Banks have saved the world from a Great Depression but they are not superhuman. Maybe we are asking too much and maybe they are trying too hard to please us. A column by Charles Wyplosz.

The top-jobs in the EU have been reallocated. Obviously, the heads of government don't want anyone who could push integration further. A column by Daniel Gros.

President Maduro's government has chosen to default on 30 million Venezuelans, rather than on Wall Street. This is not a sign of its moral rectitude, but of its moral bankruptcy. A Column by Ricardo Hausmann.

Wall Street veteran Art Cashin does not fully trust the record levels at the stock market and draws worrisome parallels between the geopolitical tensions over Ukraine and the Cuban missile crisis.