International Selection

On June 21, Germany's Constitutional Court will rule on the OMT bond-buying program of the ECB. Two days later, voters will decide whether the UK should exit the EU. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

Seeking to regain better control over its economic and financial destiny, the Kingdom has designed an ambitious economic restructuring plan, «Vision 2030». A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Barry Eichengreen, Economist at Berkeley, recommends the Swiss National Bank to rely more on asset purchases and less on negative interest rates.

It’s the big banks that continue to prefer being highly leveraged. Too many policymakers are deferring to them. That means that the global economy’s wild ride will continue. A column by Simon Johnson.

With 4% nominal GDP growth, a budget deficit of 2% would bring the long-term debt ratio down to 50%. That should be the goal for which all of the G7 countries aim. A column by Martin Feldstein.

China’s leaders seem to believe that their country is occupying a central position in the world that demands global deference – and vassalage for its immediate neighbors. A column by Nina Khrushcheva.

There has never been a compelling reason for emerging markets to buy into the rich-country case for completely demonetizing gold. And there isn’t one now. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Central bankers are technocrats and have performed well, but are now the objects of popular criticism. Finance ministries ought to build up the quality of their technocratic staffs. A column by Charles Wyplosz.

Eugene Fama, professor of finance and Nobel laureate thinks that negative interest rates won’t help to bring back growth and warns that big banks are still posing a high risk to the financial system.

Opening up the economy to competition and expanding the private sector would undermine Putin's system of wealth and power. That's why the economic troubles will continue. A column by Anders Åslund.

By calling a referendum, the UK has introduced a deep conflict into its political sphere. It is now in real danger of becoming a divided and stalemated society. A column by Harold James.

Calling the rise of populism in Europe a revolt by the losers of globalization is not just simplistic; it is misleading. A column by Daniel Gros.