Finance

Embarrassment of Riches

Natural resources would seem to promise easy money. Welcome to the dark side.

BY PETER PASSELL | FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The Revenge of Montozy

Is Italy's "Super Mario" prime minister poisoning the love affair between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy?

BY AARON WIENER | FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Canceling the Mullahs' Credit Card

How to sever Iran's financial lifeline.

BY MARK DUBOWITZ, JONATHAN SCHANZER | 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

House of 19,000 Corporations

The uproar over Mitt Romney's finances shines a light on the world's most unlikely financial capital.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 24, 2012

Nothing to Celebrate

Think 2011 was a bad year for Europe? 2012 could be a whole lot worse -- if EU leaders don't get serious and deal with these 6 problems.

BY CHARLES GRANT | JANUARY 4, 2012

A Watchful Eye

Promises of fiscal discipline by European countries could prove empty without effective surveillance from the International Monetary Fund. Here's how to make sure they don't slip.

BY MARTIN S. EDWARDS | JANUARY 4, 2012

China to the Rescue?

The hard truth of the European debt crisis is that Europe needs Asia … and Asia needs Europe.

BY JEAN PISANI-FERRY | DECEMBER 29, 2011

The End of the Chinese Dream

As China's economy continues to trend downward, Beijing's elites are sparking a new, palpable frustration in the general population.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | DECEMBER 21, 2011

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

It Ain't Easy Being a Central Banker

Spare a thought for the bureaucrats stuck with one of the most important, and miserable, jobs in the world.

BY FELIX SALMON | DECEMBER 2011

20 Things the G-20 Could Have Done -- But Didn't

As the Cannes caucus begins, here's what would have saved the world economy -- and Barack Obama's job.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Hemlock Ballot

Why the Greek referendum controversy is a tragedy in slow motion.

BY NICK MALKOUTZIS | NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Deal Breaker

How badly did Europe just bungle its best shot yet at avoiding economic catastrophe?

BY MOHAMED EL-ERIAN | NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The Perils of Loose Living

For decades, Americans have looked to monetary policy as an engine of economic growth -- and suffered the dire consequences.

BY HELEEN MEES | NOVEMBER 2011

Cashing Out

America's status as the world's banker has shielded it from harsh economic realities for more than half a century. Not anymore.

BY FAN GANG | NOVEMBER 2011

Money Market

How the West was won -- in the Middle Ages

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2011

From Berlin to Athens

As Greece's debt crisis continues to spiral downward, the leaders of Germany and Greece grapple with restive publics and the massive task of restoring the eurozone.

BY KEDAR PAVGI | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Doha Is Dead

But do we really need multilateral institutions anymore to kick-start international trade?

BY LAWRENCE HERMAN, GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER | SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Pennies from Heaven

Is God to blame for the global market meltdown?

BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The Icarus Zone

Never before has a monetary union been so full of anticipation and hype. Should we have known that the euro would buckle?

BY DAVID MARSH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

An Exorbitant Burden

Why keeping the dollar as the world's reserve currency is a massive drag on the struggling U.S. economy.

BY MICHAEL PETTIS | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The New Triumvirate

Sayonara yen. By 2025, the renminbi, dollar, and euro will control the international currency system.

BY MANSOOR DAILAMI | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Buck Stays Here

Why the dollar isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Dreaming of SDRs

Why the IMF's long dreamed-of Special Drawing Rights will always be the currency of the future.

BY DAVID BOSCO | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Multilateral Vacuum

If Washington can't get the Chinese to revalue their currency, can international institutions be of any help?

BY PHIL LEVY | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Road To Prosperity

The world needs infrastructure -- and if the West doesn't take advantage of that need, China definitely will.

BY DEREK THURBER | SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Bridges to Somewhere

More austerity won't save the global economy. Building infrastructure just might.

BY JUSTIN YIFU LIN | SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Crisis Convergence

Why the global economic crash, the rise of the Tea Party, the Arab Spring, and China’s coming fall are all connected.

BY GEORGE MAGNUS | AUGUST 31, 2011

Come Together

Leaders struggling to fix a world spiraling out of control are turning to international institutions. Are they up to the task?

BY DAVID BOSCO | AUGUST 18, 2011