Finance
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
Life After Debt
In this month's market upheavals in the United States and Europe, we are witnessing the end of a seven-decade economic experiment. But does anyone have any clue what comes next?
BY JAMES MACDONALD | AUGUST 18, 2011
Europe's Conservative Confusion
Nearly every government on the continent is center-right. So why can't they get along and figure out how to save the EU economies?
BY TYSON BARKER | AUGUST 12, 2011
All the World's Traders and All the World's Yen…
Traders react to the plummeting market on trading-room floors around the world.
AUGUST 8, 2011
Betting Against the (U.S.) House
If you can't stop Congress from ruining America's credit, can you at least make money off of it?
BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY 29, 2011
Super Bad
With the debt ceiling impasse and legislative gridlock sucking all the air out of Washington, Foreign Policy asked the experts: Is this really the worst Congress ever?
JULY 27, 2011
The Arab Recession
They may be cheering for democracy, but for most countries affected by the Arab Spring the economic news will have them crying.
BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 22, 2011
Europe's Economic Meltdown: How Did We Get Here?
A look back at the missteps and bailouts, in pictures.
BY CAMERON ABADI | JULY 20, 2011
A Continent, Sinking
Europe's financial crisis is a Titanic moment, threatening to bring down not only the EU's major economies, but its political raison d'être. Is it too late to save the ship?
BY STEVEN ERLANGER | JULY 20, 2011
The Price Is Right
How the world can buy its way out of poverty for just $100 billion.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 18, 2011
Paperwork Tigers
The developing world can do fine without more regulation, thank you very much. In fact, it can do better.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 1, 2011
A Bond for the Homeland
Migrants send billions of dollars home each year; they also save a lot, too. Instead of stuffing cash under the mattress, the developing world's diaspora could do a lot more good if they invested in their homeland.
BY NGOZI OKONJO-IWEALA, DILIP RATHA | MAY 24, 2011
Who’s in the Running to Run the IMF?
A look at the race to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY 19, 2011
Don't Mess With Taxes
Sorry, Tea Partiers -- taxation isn't the source of America's ills, and your income has more to do with dumb luck than hard work.
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 4, 2011
Bring Back Bretton Woods
It's time for a rebirth of the world's top financial institutions.
BY BIAGIO BOSSONE | MARCH 14, 2011
Identification, Please
In the developed world, high-tech personal IDs are the stuff of Orwellian dystopia. But for everyone else, they could be a path to a happier, healthier, less precarious life.
BY JAMIE HOLMES | MARCH 8, 2011
Dam Nation
When Beijing counts hydropower as "green energy," it's doing the environment -- and its economy -- no favor.
BY PETER BOSSHARD | MARCH 8, 2011
BRICs: A Short History
How did a Wall Street buzzword coined by Goldman Sachs become a powerful new bloc in world affairs?
BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Epiphanies from Jim O'Neill
The chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management talks BRICs.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MARCH/APRIL 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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