International Selection

Welfare «magnetism» not only leads to an inefficient geographical distribution of people; it also erodes and damages the magnet. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

A president is merely a product to be marketed. Its quality is not necessarily what drives its success – if it were, Donald Trump would not be regarded as a serious candidate for the Republicans. A column by Nina Khrushcheva.

Setbacks and crises are not the same thing. China’s massive reservoir of foreign-exchange reserves provides it with an important buffer against a classic currency and liquidity crisis. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

Both the eurozone and the Schengen Area have survived the tough tests they have faced for one reason: They bring practical, tangible benefits to their members. A column by Daniel Gros.

James Bianco, president of Bianco Research, expects more turmoil to come and warns that there will be no easy way out of zero interest rate policy.

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, Putin sees an opening to the West, and he wants to take advantage of it. The West should not shut him out. A column by Nina L. Khrushcheva.

According to macro strategist Felix Zulauf, founder and president of Zulauf Asset Management and Vicenda Asset Management in Zug, the almost seven-year-old bull market is over.

A generation that has inherited an open society from its parents will not understand what is required to maintain it until it has been tested and learns to keep fear from corrupting reason. A column by George Soros.

In pursuing its domestic objectives, China risks inadvertently amplifying global financial instability. Markets worry that renminbi devaluation could «steal» growth from other countries. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Willem Buiter, chief economist of Citigroup, doubts the official figures on growth in China. He expects more bad news from China until the problems there are dealt with a fiscal stimulus. He advises the same measure for the Euro area.

New technologies and approaches are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that will fundamentally transform humankind. This is one of the biggest challenges of our time. A column by Klaus Schwab.

Wall Street veteran Art Cashin warns that bankruptcies in the US oil industry could cause severe stress in the financial system. He believes the rate hike of the Federal Reserve was a mistake.