Economics

“The World for Sale” peels back the cover on the secretive—and sometimes shady—people who make the modern world go around.

During crisis after crisis, London’s financial giants cried wolf about leaving. Now the wolf is at the door.

Once teeming lakes are fast disappearing and with them, a lucrative career for tens of thousands of people in the region.

If the government continues to pile up debt without necessary reforms, it will set its economy on the road to ruin.

Unwinding sanctions will be central to reviving the nuclear deal. If the Biden administration wants a lasting solution, it must involve Iran’s central bank governor.

A public jobs guarantee is the only way to provide economic recovery without endangering the climate.

As the ongoing conflict in Yemen shows, it’s time to fight starvation not only on humanitarian grounds but as an essential component of military and foreign policy.

It could build entire industries, create new jobs, green the economy—and unite the country behind a common purpose.

Largely protected from furloughs and layoffs, public employees in Italy have become the scapegoat for an economic crisis that politicians must address.

The region is the poster child for insecurities already brought on by global warming.

Some Republicans are taking steps toward Europe’s model of religiously inspired social assistance.

Consumers will punish brands that rely on forced Uighur labor. While abandoning the Chinese market might hit profits, it will bolster reputations.

Why the push to bring home manufacturing won’t work—and what Biden should do instead.

Supporting the middle class at home and reasserting leadership abroad may be mutually exclusive, especially in Asia.

Forget U.S. sanctions over arms deals. Indian-Russian alignment is in Washington’s best interest.

Maintaining maximum pressure to inflict more pain won’t bring Tehran back to the negotiating table or halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

The pandemic has discredited decades of free market orthodoxy—but not all visions of state interventionism are progressive.

The president can corner China by bringing one of his predecessor’s foreign-policy initiatives to completion.

Even the best-intentioned cryptocurrencies can become scams.