International Selection

Far from a recipe for greatness, the Trump fiscal gambit spells serious trouble. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

John Mauldin, financial writer, is optimistic about the future, despite the danger of a recession, too much debt and a frustrated society.

The EU can still develop, but only if it frees itself from narrow French and German priorities. What Europe needs now is not a hard core, but a hard think. A column by Harold James.

President Trump hasn't achieved much in major economic policies. The one thing on which all Republicans agree is tax cuts, but now is the worst possible time for cutting taxes. A column by Barry Eichengreen.

Despite the eurozone’s difficulty generating inflation in an aging society characterized by excess savings, growth is not necessarily out of reach. A column by Daniel Gros.

The European Central Bank would be unable to respond to an economic downturn by lowering interest rates and buying long-term bonds. A column by Martin Feldstein.

The future of Catalonia lies not in brutal separation, but in cooperation within federal structures, in a federal Europe. A column by Guy Verhofstadt.

Thinking people, once they are shown that order generated without design outstrips plans made by men, are willing to change their minds about the spurious virtues of central decision making. A column by Victoria Curzon Price.

The next head of the Fed, Jerome Powell, will face some extraordinary challenges at the outset of his five-year term. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

The printing press greatly expanded the accessibility of Martin Luther's ideas on reformation and thus galvanized the revolt against the Church. That holds a lesson for today. A column by Nicholas Davis.

Technological change will continue to pose momentous challenges to labor markets. With smart, forward-looking policies, we can meet those challenges head on. A column by Zia Qureshi.

Alex Gorsky, CEO of J&J, explains why the company is the right buyer for Actelion and why he dared to enter eye surgery business via Abbott Medical Optics and not via Alcon.