International Selection

There seems to be little reason to fear for the euro’s survival in the near term, but market participants have some doubts about the long-term survival. A column by Daniel Gros.

High border taxes could boost US employment in an odd way: The scheme would require a huge increase in customs agents, and the underground economy would expand. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

The reforms were serious; but they did not go far enough, and they can be rolled back without much difficulty. The Trump administration is poised to do exactly that. A column by Simon Johnson.

On March 9, Europe should robustly reject Kaczyński’s paranoid fantasies by returning Tusk to the presidency of the European Council. A column by Sławomir Sierakowski.

The US scores poorly on corporate tax rates, but it more than compensates for this with its capacity for innovation, research and development and availability of talents. A column by Stephen Roach.

A victory by Merkel or Schulz in Germany, following the defeat of Le Pen in France, could herald the emergence of a global counter-offensive. A column by Guy Verhofstadt.

James Bianco, president of Bianco Research, thinks that the Federal Reserve will have to jack up interest rates and the US stock market is running into trouble.

South Africa will need much more than improved economic governance if it is to overcome its challenges and unleash its full potential in an uncertain global economy . A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

If Trump insists on dispensing with fact-based decision-making, this will come to a head when he begins to appoint people to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A column by Simon Johnson.

We have no interest in establishing such a fund. One possible solution is for the Confederation to borrow in order to finance infrastructure for future generations. A column by Victoria Curzon Price.

We have every reason to be confident in a process that has delivered more prosperity to more people than we could have dreamed of only decades ago. So let's defend globalization. A column by Carl Bildt.

Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics at Stanford University warns that the global financial systems remains vulnerable and postulates that big banks should hold substantially more equity.