International Selection

A euro-dollar exchange rate around current levels is what we should want, since developments that could cause the currency to move away from current levels are undesirable. A column by Barry Eichengreen.

A decade after the start of the crisis, advanced economies still have not decisively pivoted away from a growth model that is overly reliant on liquidity and leverage. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

The proposed nuclear-ban treaty could complicate efforts to reduce nuclear arsenals, deepen the gap between nuclear- and non-nuclear states, and increase the risk of a nuclear war. A column by Carl Bildt.

The West needs real investments and higher productivity and wage growth – not more economically unjustifiable profits. A column by Jim O’Neill.

Today’s European strongmen have retained popular support by maintaining the relative economic freedom on which long-term prosperity depends. A column by Daniel Gros.

Avoiding a war is still the world’s best bet – a fact that even the turbulent Trump administration seems to recognize. But that will require cooperation from China. A column by Minghao Zhao.

Jim McHugh, Vice President and General Manager at chip producer Nividia, explains why graphics processing units are so popular in Machine Learning.

Venezuela’s economic catastrophe dwarfs any in the history of the US, Western Europe, or the rest of Latin America. A column by Ricardo Hausmann.

When policymakers scrambled in search of «big bazookas» ten years ago, they set the stage for the return of an old character: a strongman willing to pull the trigger. A column by Harold James.

Fred Hickey, editor of the influential investment newsletter «The High-Tech Strategist», warns of trouble ahead for the stock market and spots bright opportunities in the gold sector.

The Chinese economy is in the midst of a structural transformation. Nevertheless it is more stable than Japan or western industrialized countries. A commentary by Stephen R. Roach.

The same angst that Americans and Europeans have about the future of jobs is an order of magnitude higher in Asia. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.