Business

Don't Fear the Grexit

Greece is not Lehman Brothers, and the global economy will be just fine if it drops out of the eurozone.

BY THOMAS OATLEY, KINDRED WINECOFF | MAY 23, 2012

Red Flag and the Silver Screen

Why is China buying America's movie theaters?

BY SHAUN REIN | MAY 22, 2012

Tobacco's War on Women

The global tobacco industry is targeting women in emerging markets. Can public policy rise to the challenge?

BY BRAD EDMONDSON | MAY 1, 2012

Power Play

Egypt may think it struck a blow against Israel by canceling a gas deal between the two countries. But all it really did was shoot itself in the foot.

BY ROBIN M. MILLS | APRIL 27, 2012

The World According to Glencore

"The biggest company you never heard of," as Reuters once put it, Glencore does business in dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. Here's a snapshot of this global empire -- and some of its murky local alliances.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012

A Giant Among Giants

Glencore -- founded by famous fugitive Marc Rich -- has cornered the market on just about everything. Now that it's going public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny?

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012

Get an MBA, Save the World

If you want to work in international development, go work for a big, bad multinational company.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2012

Artful Dodgers

The 6 countries where everyone runs the other way when the tax man comes knocking.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 13, 2012

Trustbusters

Why the Obama Administration is targeting Malaysia and Vietnam in the trans-Pacific trade talks.

BY GREG RUSHFORD | APRIL 13, 2012

The Zero Man

Obama’s greatest obstacle to re-election isn’t Mitt Romney, or rising gas prices: It’s Ben Bernanke.

BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 3, 2012

The Temperature's Dropping for Russia's Opposition

Vladimir Putin is back in the saddle, and the weather is getting chilly again for Russia's protest movement.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | MARCH 15, 2012

$200 Oil and the Moscow-Beijing Alliance

An exclusive conversation with Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer on the toll of war with Iran -- and why China and Russia just don't care anymore what the United States thinks of them.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 9, 2012

Off the Beaten Path

Some of the best economic innovations come from places you wouldn't expect.

BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The Strange Revolution in Bahrain, One Year On

The revolt in little Bahrain is easy to ignore. But it’s actually part of a big global story.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The Little Economy That Could

If you're looking for an unlikely economic success story, you can hardly do better than Mauritius.

BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Social Networks in Exile

The $100 billion Facebook juggernaut is going public. But remember Friendster and LiveJournal? They never died. They just fled overseas.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Why Putinomics Isn't Worth Emulating

Don't let the Russian economy fool you: It's still all about oil.

BY PETER PASSELL | JANUARY 27, 2012

The Battle for Bihar

Sleaze still plagues India. But one place is fighting back.

BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | JANUARY 25, 2012

Guns and Butter

Countries around the world are finding that military involvement in private business is a major barrier to reform. But pensioning off CEOs in uniform is easier said than done.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 24, 2012

Girl Power and the Fragility Trap

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | JANUARY 20, 2012

Keeping Markets Happy

It's not public-sector deficits that are at fault for the euro crisis -- it's the policies that have enabled the financial sector to wield so much power.

BY RICK ROWDEN | DECEMBER 15, 2011

The Mall of the World

What a Hong Kong shopping complex tells us about the true nature of globalization.

BY GORDON MATHEWS | NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Inside Syria's Economic Implosion

Under the weight of sanctions and eight months of protests, the Syrian economy is starting to buckle. But that doesn't mean business leaders will abandon the regime.

BY STEPHEN STARR | NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Little Is the New Big

From Angry Birds to crowd-sourced science, the "micromultinational" corporation is here.

BY SOPHIA JONES | AUGUST 19, 2011

Red, Delicious, and Rotten

How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 1, 2011

A Thousand Points of Light

When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 11, 2011

The Rise of the Red Market

How the best intentions of the medical community accidentally created an international organ-trafficking underground.

BY SCOTT CARNEY | MAY 30, 2011

No Need for Speed

Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011

A Market for Good

Why American workers need the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement.

BY MAX BAUCUS | APRIL 22, 2011

Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade

Why cracking down on Afghanistan's opium business won't help stop the Taliban -- or the United States' own drug problems.

BY JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, JONATHAN D. KULICK, AND MARK A.R. KLEIMAN | APRIL 1, 2011