International Selection

Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO of Quill Intelligence and former analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, talks about the Fed and the market turmoil.

Since the aftershocks are not going to end soon, governments should acknowledge the need to provide fiscal support for an extended period. A column by Barry Eichengreen.

Diseases are always evolving, and we must continually increase our capacity to understand and fight newly emerging threats. Column by Simon Johnson.

With the world economy operating close to stall speed, the confluence of ever-present shocks and a sharply diminished trade cushion raises serious questions about financial markets. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

It is not too soon to recognize that the next global recession could be around the corner – and that it may look a lot different from those that began in 2001 and 2008. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Not surprisingly, the COVID-19 epidemic is already playing into today’s nationalist narratives. In a world flooded with disinformation, COVID-19 promises to bring even more. A column by Harold James.

Investment Strategist Ed Yardeni doesn't think that monetary policy can solve all our problems, but panic due to the outbreak of the coronavirus isn't warranted either.

Trump calls on the Fed to lower interest rates and ease its monetary policy so that the dollar will depreciate: The US is free to manipulate its currency – just so long as no one else does. A column by Anne O. Krueger.

For the first time since coming to power, Xi’s high-tech censorship machine is meeting with intense resistance from millions of Chinese Internet users. A column by Xiao Qiang.

The world economy was weak, and getting weaker, when COVID-19 struck. The V-shaped recovery trajectory of a SARS-like episode will thus be much tougher to replicate. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

Bloomberg is untested, Sanders’s odds are lower than they would be in an economic downturn, and Trump can tout an historically low unemployment rate. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

Owing to modern science and technology, and our capacity for collective action, we already have the tools to prevent, manage, and contain global pandemics. A column by Julie Sunderland.