International Selection

Reforms must allow Swiss health care to benefit from the huge advantages of freer markets, and to cease from suffering from their absence. The alternative is rationing of services. A column by Victoria Curzon Price.

After the November elections, the strong American economy may be threatened by an escalating trade war or the specter of higher taxes. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

Sarah Ketterer, co-founder and CEO of Causeway Capital Management thinks that Swiss blue-chip stocks Novartis, Roche and ABB will outperform in a rising interest environment.

Should the leaders of the two governing parties, Salvini and Di Maio, enact only a portion of their programs, Italy would sink in a major economic and financial crisis. A column by Charles Wyplosz.

The government ought to restore financial stability and growth by reversing its stance on central-bank independence, interest-rate policy, and perhaps even the IMF. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Patent laws as we know them are becoming an obstacle to innovation instead of promoting them. Today's IP regime needs to be overhauled and made more flexible. A column by Zia Qureshi.

Although the American economy is indeed growing rapidly, the full extent of President Donald Trump’s economic legacy might not be felt for a decade or more. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Given the choice between re-empowering and starving its citizens, the regime chose the latter and bought off as many henchmen, through venal means, as it would need. A column by Ricardo Hausmann.

How Iqbal Khan, CEO of the bank's International Wealth Management business, flattens the hierarchy and brings advisory services closer to the client.

Trump’s protectionism is a response to the rise of China. But by launching a tariff war that also affects the EU and Canada, he is making China look like a more attractive partner than the US. A column by Harold James.

The impact the planned rate hikes by the Fed will have on emerging markets currencies will be more important than the crisis of the Lira. A column by Cornelia Meyer.

Prime Minister May should let the people vote on a properly articulated Brexit plan, with the alternative of keeping the status quo and remaining in the EU. A column by Anatole Kaletsky.