International Selection

Thirty years ago, Europe experienced a truly miraculous few months. It wasn’t certain at all that the empire of the declining Soviet Union would disintegrate peacefully. A column by Carl Bildt.

China’s government may loathe the idea of making concessions to the Hong Kong protesters, but considering the catastrophic consequences of a military crackdown, that is what it must do. A column by Minxin Pei.

By firing his latest tariff salvo against China, the US-President has further raised the stakes in an increasingly damaging dispute. And America is likely to emerge as the bigger loser. A column by Daniel Gros

The growing tensions, namely between the US and China, are related to the fact that economic growth has been too low and not inclusive and to the over-reliance on central-bank liquidity. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Fed Char Jerome Powell’s challenge is to maintain Volckerian discipline and independence in the face of growing political pressure. His prospects for success are not great. A column by Robert J. Barro.

The Great Recession was a deep downturn, but not as bad as the Great Depression of 1929. Rather, it was similar in size to the recession of 1974. A column by Fabrizio Zilibotti.

The EU needs structural policies that liberate market forces rather than continuing to sustain zombies and to finance a housing bubble and governments with ever-cheaper credit. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

Time and again, the long view in China has stood in sharp contrast to America’s short-term approach. This has become all the more evident during Trump’s Twitter-driven presidency. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

Neither a blind austerity policy nor a bening neglect of fiscal discipline satisfy the demands of sustainable budgets. A commenary by Charles Wyplosz.

Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital and former White House Communications Director, thinks that US-President Donald Trump will win reelection and the only one who can stop him is Trump himself.

Europe’s real vulnerabilities are its still-fragmented telecoms market and its lack of a common cyber-defense system. A comment by Daniel Gros.

Annual CO2 emissions in Asia are now double that of the America’s, and triple that of Europe. A new World Carbon Bank is almost surely a necessary piece of any comprehensive solution. A column by Kenneth Rogoff