Economics

Trump is a pariah for top security experts, Biden won’t end U.S. trade wars, and Saudi Arabia’s bid to rejoin the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Biden has matched Trump’s rhetoric on trade soundbite for soundbite, and his economic plans are likely to make trade conflicts worse.

The special economic zones are meant to quietly bring countries together before more public realignments. But do they?

There are big problems with the most important metric used to assess progress toward the U.N.'s environmental goals.

Economists have long imagined that the free movement of capital around the world benefits the U.S. economy. It doesn’t.

To rebuild its position as a powerhouse, the country will need to focus on its deeper problems.

Maximum pressure has not destroyed the Iranian economy, and Tehran is now sharing its lessons in resilience with Nicolás Maduro’s beleaguered regime in Caracas.

Seoul seems to have shown the way to mitigating both the health and the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

If the yen gets stronger, Japan’s new prime minister will have to come up with something new to protect exports.

The German chancellor has put future deals over moral values, but she’s not alone.

The managing director and the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund lay out a strategy for sustained recovery.

No longer sclerotic, Europe’s economy is bouncing back much faster than the United States’.