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Echoes of Belgrade
From Minsk to Cairo, the nonviolent democratic uprisings of the past decade have been influenced by the tactics and imagery of Serbia's 2000 Bulldozer Revolution.
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
Egypt's Cauldron of Revolt
It was striking workers that first inspired the Egyptian uprising. And they're still at it.
BY ANAND GOPAL | FEBRUARY 16, 2011
I Was a Rare Earths Day Trader
How a naval confrontation in the South China Sea created a global investment bubble -- and cost me half my life savings.
BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 21, 2011
Big Is Beautiful
Financial access is key to helping the world's poor -- and tech-savvy big banks, not microcreditors, are our best hope for providing it.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 18, 2011
The Euro Is Dead
But, if Europe's leaders play their cards right, it can rise again.
BY CHARLES CALOMIRIS | JANUARY 6, 2011
Where Do Bad Ideas Come From?
And why don't they go away?
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Running the World, After the Crash
Has the era of global cooperation ended before it began?
BY RICHARD SAMANS, KLAUS SCHWAB, MARK MALLOCH-BROWN | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The Imaginot Line
Why we're still fighting yesterday's economic war.
BY PAUL SEABRIGHT | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The Depression? J'accuse!
Is France to blame for the Great Depression?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
What Saved Japan?
Dick Beason takes issue with Clyde Prestowitz's argument that government action, not free markets, beat the Japanese juggernaut.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The Stories to Watch in 2011
For every totally out-of-the-blue crisis that seizes the international agenda, there are some that everyone should have seen coming. Here are five foreign-policy stories to watch in 2011.
BY CAMERON ABADI | DECEMBER 30, 2010
Spain on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
European leaders need to stop whinging and start solving their debt crisis for real.
BY EDWARD HUGH | DECEMBER 3, 2010
Fault Lines
Global Thinker No. 26 Raghuram Rajan's look at the fissures that brought about the global financial crisis -- and which are still at work today.
BY RAGHURAM RAJAN | DECEMBER 2010
Looking Back on Too Big to Fail
From the new afterword to Andrew Ross Sorkin's classic tale of the financial crisis, recommended by several FP Global Thinkers: Have we learned anything from our failures?
BY ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | DECEMBER 2010
The African Miracle
How the world's charity case became its best investment opportunity.
BY NORBERT DÖRR, SUSAN LUND, CHARLES ROXBURGH | DECEMBER 2010
The Long Currency War
The G-20 summit failed to solve the international currency war -- and it may soon be escalating.
BY KATI SUOMINEN | NOVEMBER 12, 2010
Fool's Gold
Why the idea of a gold standard is best relegated to the dustbin of history.
BY MARK T. WILLIAMS | NOVEMBER 10, 2010
The Goldilocks Number?
The Federal Reserve just announced that it would buy $600 billion in government bonds over the next eight months. Some say it isn't enough, others say it could ruin the world's financial system, and the Fed says it's just right.
BY PHIL LEVY | NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Death of a Gambler
Argentina's high-stakes former president Nestor Kirchner will continue to be larger than life, even in death.
BY ANNA PETHERICK | OCTOBER 29, 2010
The Return of Globalization
As the G-20 finance ministers gather in South Korea, trade is returning but currency wars are brewing. Can they agree to cooperate before protectionist urges tear them apart?
BY GARY HUFBAUER, KATI SUOMINEN | OCTOBER 21, 2010
Avoid the Double Dip
How Obama can save the fragile economy from going back into a tailspin.
BY NOURIEL ROUBINI, MICHAEL MORAN | NOVEMBER 2010
Epiphanies from Paul Volcker
The legendary central banker speaks with FP about family values, what went wrong with big finance, and why baseball is to blame.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | NOVEMBER 2010
The Ghost of Economics Past
What would the world's economics Nobel Prize laureates make of Barack Obama's response to the financial crisis?
BY THOMAS KARIER | OCTOBER 8, 2010
Divided We Fall
As the global economic recovery staggers, countries are lurching toward unilateral solutions that will only make us all worse off. It's time for the world to come together and produce real answers.
BY CHARLES DALLARA | OCTOBER 8, 2010
Financial Shock and Awe
The world's central banks are at war. What does that mean for the rest of us?
BY BARRY EICHENGREEN | OCTOBER 6, 2010
The Japan Syndrome
China's teetering on the verge of its own lost decade, and a meltdown in Beijing would make Japan's economic malaise look like child's play.
BY ETHAN DEVINE | SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
The Wrong Way to Deal with Beijing
U.S. lawmakers are moving swiftly to enact punitive tariffs on China. But American companies doing business in China believe there's a better way to rebalance the world economy.
BY JOHN D. WATKINS JR., CHRISTIAN MURCK | SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
China Won't Revalue the Yuan
No amount of hectoring by Barack Obama is going to change the calculus of Chinese leaders. An undervalued currency may be critical to their very survival.
BY JOHN LEE | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
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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