International Selection

LSE economist Paul De Grauwe accusses the ECB to allow the financing of banks to be used for pessure on Greece. Greece is being forced to leave the Eurozone.

Employment can no longer be increased with an easier monetary police or expansionary fiscal policy. A commentary by Martin Feldstein.

In place of a program providing the country with further loans, it might make more sense to provide outright humanitarian aid – regardless of whether Greece remains fully within the eurozone. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.

Wences Casares, founder of Bitcoin startup Xapo, explains, why his company's headqarter is moving from California to Switzerland. He thinks that Bitcoin will be the first native currency of the internet.

Ukraine's allies – particularly the EU – can do better. By revising their policies, they must ensure that the new Ukraine will succeed, in their own interest. A column by George Soros.

Global should remember that, for emerging economies, the wave of industrialization and urbanization and the associated productivity gains are far from over. A column by Laura Tyson.

Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science at Berkeley, thinks new negotiations between Greece and its creditors are unlikely before Sunday. The ECB made the best out of an impossible situation.

Charles Wyplosz, Professor for International Economics in Geneva, says there is no alternative to a Grexit if Greek voters say No to the demands of the country’s creditors in the referendum called for next Sunday.

The focus on the downpour in Greece is understandable. But policymakers mustn't fail to prepare for the other two possible storms: Ukraine and populist political movements. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

Vladislav Surkov is the man most responsible for nurturing pro-Putin sentiment in Russia, which increasingly resembles a Stalin-like cult of personality. A column by Nina L. Khrushcheva

The ability to develop institutions that rely more on market competition and less on government will determine the success of emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

As China's economy becomes more liberalized, the authorities will scrap growth targets altogether and turn to the more modest notion of growth forecasts. A column by Fabrizio Zilibotti.