Economics
Mad Libs: Economy Edition
With a presidential race focused on the ailing U.S. economy, Foreign Policy asked the experts to help fill in the blanks.
NOVEMBER 2012
No Exit
For the first time in many years, Venezuela’s presidential election is raising the possibility of an electoral defeat for Hugo Chávez. But if he loses, does that mean he’ll go?
BY DANIEL LANSBERG-RODRIGUEZ | OCTOBER 4, 2012
Argentina's Deadbeat Mom
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner refuses to pay Argentina's massive debts -- and that's why she has to go.
BY JAMES K. GLASSMAN | OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Asian Cold War
China and Japan's island spat is much more than a battle over a bunch of uninhabited rocks. And it won't be ending anytime soon.
BY MICHAEL AUSLIN | OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Real Reason Energy Traders Are Losing Sleep
This time, it's Western politicians, not Arabian sheikhs, who are roiling the oil markets.
BY BLAKE CLAYTON | OCTOBER 4, 2012
The Joint Chiefs of Lobbyists
Pentagon honchos loudly claim that national debt is the greatest security threat to America. They're dead wrong -- they just want more money for the military.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | OCTOBER 3, 2012
The Election Is Over
It's time to start worrying about 2013, because the Obama team clearly isn't.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 1, 2012
The Pain in Spain
As protests and problems pile up, there's no easy way out of the crisis for Spain's embattled government.
BY JAMES BADCOCK | OCTOBER 1, 2012
Mr. 3.75 Percent
Paul Ryan wants to cut federal discretionary spending to the level of Equatorial Guinea. Yes, that's as crazy as it sounds.
BY DANIEL ALTMAN | OCTOBER 1, 2012
Save Benghazi
How the citizens of Benghazi are pushing back against the killers of a U.S. diplomat many considered their friend.
BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
Bachelor Padding
How lonely single men created China's dangerous real estate bubble.
BY ROSEANN LAKE | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
The Gangnam Phenom
A South Korean video is making waves on the Web. But the West is actually late to the party.
BY MARK JAMES RUSSELL | SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
Why We Give the Lady a Hard Time
An open letter to the critics of our criticism.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
Losing the Future
Why short-term thinking is the greatest threat to the global economy.
BY DANIEL ALTMAN | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Fear Premium
An exclusive conversation with Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer on the hidden economic risks as geopolitical tensions bubble over in the Middle East and China.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
The Sino Stranglehold
How badly could the Chinese protests hurt Japan's economy?
BY JUNE TEUFEL DREYER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
5 Reasons to Believe in the Indonesian Miracle
Why this amazing archipelago is on track to be the world's seventh largest economy.
BY RICHARD DOBBS, FRASER THOMPSON, ARIEF BUDIMAN | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Finding the Right Take-Off Speed
There's no one-size-fits-all approach to transition economies. But slow and steady often wins the race.
BY JUSTIN YIFU LIN | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
Turkey's Fragile Success
Turkey has undeniable economic potential, but there is still a lot of work to do.
BY CENK SIDAR | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
The Problem with Patriotism
The dispute over islands in the East China Sea is stirring up nationalist passions in the region. That doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Think Again: Burma’s Economy
Burma is open for business, and foreign investors are champing at the bit. Time for a reality check.
BY JARED BISSINGER | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Das Gift
How Angela Merkel's bold plan to save Europe may have just saved Barack Obama.
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
The Fed Jumps on the Bandwagon
Where was Ben Bernanke when Obama needed him?
BY DANIEL ALTMAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Paul Krugman's Baltic Problem
Why is the Nobel Prize-winning economist mocking the countries that have escaped the eurocrisis?
BY ANDERS ÅSLUND | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Why China Will Never Have a Wall Street
In good times and bad, Chinese stock markets don’t work. And that's just the way Beijing wants it.
BY CARL WALTER, FRASER HOWIE | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
India, Meet Icarus
Why no one should be surprised that the emerging economic superpower is getting cut back down to size.
BY PETER PASSELL | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
The City with a Short Fuse
How a shrewd politician defused ethnic tension and improved public services in one of Indonesia’s most dysfunctional cities.
BY RUSHDA MAJEED | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Cancer at the Core
The key to ensuring America's long-term national security is something neither Democrats nor Republicans really seem to understand.
BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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