International Selection

The US presidential candidate who, in the 2016 campaign, will convincingly promote imposing greater constraints on the big banks, will have a good chance of winning it all. A column by Simon Johnson

Health-care reform is just one example in which government can deliver what the public wants by setting goals, encouraging creativity, and providing the resources to scale up what works. A column by Laura Tyson.

The problem is that in many countries, both developed and developing, the current relationship between the private sector and the government is often dysfunctional. A column by Ricardo Hausmann.

The administration of Prime Minister Modi plans to invest heavily in the expansion of IT. The potential benefits of this strategy are enormous. A column by Raghunath A. Mashelkar.

The real reasons for the Kremlin's aggressive revisionism are the effects of the 2007–2008 financial crisis on global politics. A column by Harold James.

A column by Guy Spier, Aquamarine Capital and Author of «The Education of a Value Investor», about his investment philosophy.

A column by Jeremy Grantham, Chairman and Co-founder of GMO, about his investment philosophy.

A column by Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital, about his investment philosophy.

Taxes on information and communications technology are the modern-day equivalent of eating the grain you were saving to plant next year. A column by Robert D. Atkinson.

William R. White, former chief economist of the Bank for International Settlements, is worried about extreme monetary policies worldwide. The SNB, by introducing negative interest rates, is trying to cope with these currents.

Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of the investment firm DoubleLine, is bullish on the Dollar and worried that a rise in interest rates could cause an economic downturn in the United States.

Calling for more investment is superficially always attractive. The often-invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking. A column by Daniel Gros.