Economics

The famously permissive Dutch city is cracking down on prostitution, relocating sex workers, and discriminating against those employed in the industry.

The South American country needs to do a better job patrolling its financial system—or face the consequences.

Cryptocurrency is about as safe as keeping your money in a sock under someone else’s bed.

Life may be getting harder in Russia, but Putin doesn’t care.

The new NAFTA is going nowhere, China’s not budging, and farmers are going under.

Trump taps a critic of the world’s biggest development bank to be its next president.

Inside the U.S. decision to get behind Congo’s election and how the United States failed Afghan women.

The new vehicle will do little to ease Iran’s economic pain, though it should help humanitarian trade.

The Central Bank of Iran wants to take four zeros off the rial—but redenomination won’t work miracles.

Unless would-be migrants can build lives with dignity—which poorly paid, export-oriented jobs do not provide—they will continue to seek ways to move on.

Beijing is preparing another massive stimulus, but the economy is visibly running out of steam.

The world’s most powerful economic elites are using anti-globalist rhetoric to help turbocharge globalization—and enrich themselves.