global political economy

Despite inequality, debt, and a tariff war, the U.S. economy is still the strongest.

The economic blow to Tehran will be compounded if it fails to comply with global financial transparency rules.

On the podcast: The United States’ last big trade war was in 1930. It did not end well.

Endless elections, unqualified leaders, uninformed voters, and short-term thinking are impeding economic growth.

Trump thinks he has a strong hand. In fact, Washington is far more vulnerable than Beijing.

Mohammed bin Salman's consolidation of power is making Saudi Arabia a more unpredictable U.S. ally than ever before.

Once a shining beacon, the United States now offers an excuse for behaving badly.

"Made in Germany" used to mean reliability. Now it means collusion.

On militarism, exhaustion, and decadence.

One country’s moral evangelism is the rest of the world’s intolerable smugness.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what the Trump administration seems to be doing.

The good times may not last long, the IMF warns.

If it ain’t broke, sure, try to fix it.

Spoiler alert: The United States gets the biggest slice of the pie.

Liberal democracy and market capitalism are taken for granted as the best form of government. That bubble may be about to burst.

Yes, the markets are looking good (for now). But subsidized deal-making and tax cuts for the rich are the surest sign of a bubble.

The Chinese might just have answered Donald Trump.

Is the trial against Brazil's former president a balm for or distraction from the country's current economic woes?

India was already dealing with cash crisis chaos. Then it suffered its deadliest train crash in years.

U.S. companies are preparing to tap the solar system’s riches. But will they share the trillion-dollar deep-space market with hungry foreign competitors?