International Selection

As governments enact sweeping emergency measures, including to combat disinformation and trace the contacts of infected people, the crisis has created a threat to digital freedom. A column by Mark Stephens.

On instructions from Beijing, China’s diplomats operate in the style of «wolf warriors». Although this is counterproductive, the ambassadors have to put allegiance first. A column by Minxin Pei.

The current model of globalization needs adjusting, but building resilience does not mean tearing down the entire system and starting over again. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Peter Berezin, Chief Strategist from BCA Research, expects equity markets to trend higher over the coming twelve months and the dollar to weaken.

Debt is a dangerous instrument. For far too long, the world has used it to avoid necessary decisions. In the midst of an unprecedented global crisis, something will have to give. A column by Willem H. Buiter.

The real lesson of the Covid-19 crisis is not that robots are the key to economic dynamism, but that they mean little without human agency. A column by Sami Mahroum.

The alternative SocGen global strategist expects for the US a deflationary bust and negative interest rates soon. His preferred investment remains gold.

The Covid-19 crisis offers important lessons; but it has not furnished any good arguments against trade or global supply chains. A column by Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg.

To exit the Coronavirus-crisis, it should be a policy priority to keep people attached to the labor force. But these concerns are almost inexistent in the current political discourse. A column by Fabrizio Zilibotti.

The GCC’s ruling was a necessary reminder that the EU is a community based on the rule of law, and that only its sovereign member states can develop it further. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

Putin’s authoritarianism is failing, and the legacy of Gorbachev, who willingly or unwillingly gave Russia freedom, will be redeemed in the long run. A column by Andrei Kolesnikov.

Advocates of globalization should adopt a pragmatic approach that focuses finding ways to manage an orderly and gradual process of partial deglobalization. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.