International Selection

Luigi Zingales, Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, says that crony capitalism is growing rampant.

The next EU-summit will not show very substantial results. The European Union is too deeply divided for that to happen. A column by Charles Wyplosz.

Paul De Grauwe, professor for economics at the LSE, sees the set-up in the Eurozone as «unsustainable».

Christopher K. Lee, China rating expert of Standard & Poor's, expects more defaults of Chinese companies.

If we reflect on Marx' intellectual legacy, we should do so not in celebration, but to inoculate our open societies against the totalitarian temptation that lurks in his false theories. A column by Carl Bildt.

The Trump deal would shift the Chinese piece of America’s multilateral imbalance to higher-cost imports from elsewhere – the functional equivalent of a tax hike on American families. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

Beyond challenging emerging markets’ stability, a sudden and sharp appreciation of the US dollar threatens to complicate trade negotiations. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Like high-level managers at publicly traded private companies, policymakers who made bad decisions should face clawbacks, in the form of reduced pensions. A column by Dambisa Moyo.

Some regulation of the technology sector is necessary, and there is now an open window of opportunity to pursue new policies in that respect. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

From the perspective of the European Union voluntary export limitations should be the most tempting response. A column by Daniel Gros.

Fed appointees have been treated almost as well as generals in the Trump universe. But with ballooning deficits and the approach of the 2020 election campaign, testing times lie ahead. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

With many of the world’s democracies under growing strain and authoritarianism on the rise, the lessons of that period in German history should be heeded elsewhere as well. A column by Harold James.