Financial crisis

Nouriel Roubini

He may not be perfect, but there's never been a better time to be in the prophet of doom business.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | NOVEMBER 2012

Blame Game

Want to avert another global recession? Stop the finger-pointing.

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | NOVEMBER 2012

Extremists

How dangerous radicals are reaping the benefits of financial unease.

BY J.M. BERGER | NOVEMBER 2012

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

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

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

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

A Fistful of Kronor

European leaders wouldn't be so befuddled about how to solve their economic crisis if they simply looked north.

BY PETER WOLODARSKI | AUGUST 15, 2012

Why Bad Politics = Even Worse Markets

Want to fix the economy? Stop the partisan brinkmanship.

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | SEPT/OCT 2012

The Big West Solution

What Arizona can teach Europe about weathering a housing crisis.

BY SHIMELSE ALI, URI DADUSH, ZAAHIRA WYNE | AUGUST 6, 2012

Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t

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 | AUGUST 3, 2012

Think Again: The Eurocrisis

Markets are crashing. The euro is hurting. Here's why the continent's financial crisis is even messier than it appears, and how the blowback could hit the United States in the face.

BY DAVID GORDON, DOUGLAS REDIKER | JULY 23, 2012

How Republicans Sabotaged the Recovery

The economy didn't jump. It was pushed.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JULY 23, 2012

EuroFail

How many summits does it take to NOT solve the eurocrisis?

BY URI FRIEDMAN, HILLARY HURD | JUNE 28, 2012

Prescription for Decline

The Supreme Court's ruling was a step in the right direction. But spiraling health-care costs could still doom America's recovery.

BY WILL MARSHALL | JUNE 28, 2012

No Special Sauce on This Currywurst

The end of the German "miracle" is coming.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JUNE 25, 2012

In Search of Merbama

Will Barack Obama's wooing of the German chancellor pay dividends in November?

BY KAREN LEIGH | JUNE 20, 2012

The Exclusion Zone

G-20 leaders are out of ideas and out of touch. No wonder their citizens are so angry.

BY MICHAEL J. CASEY | JUNE 19, 2012

Flirting with Disaster

Is Greece a failed state?

BY PATRICIA TAFT | JUNE 19, 2012

For Multilateralism, Is This the Dark Moment Before the Dawn?

Let's hope so.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 18, 2012

Drachmail and the New Democrats

Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | JUNE 18, 2012

Greeks Don't Want a Grexit

The pundits say that Greece will have to drop the euro after Sunday's election. But that's not what the Greek people want.

BY LOUIS KLAREVAS | JUNE 14, 2012

12 Signs of the Europocalypse

From the Chinese buying spree to the rise of extremism, here's what to watch for as the continent teeters on the brink of disaster.

BY DOUGLAS REDIKER, DAVID GORDON | JUNE 12, 2012

Fed Up

Yes, Jamie Dimon should lose his seat on the New York Fed board. But why stop there when America's financial regulation is such a mess?

BY HELEEN MEES | JUNE 12, 2012

Greece's MAD Strategy

When faced with the nuclear option of a Grexit, will Germany blink?

BY THOMAS WRIGHT | JUNE 11, 2012

The End of the Asian Miracle

The investment guru who coined the term "emerging markets" returns from Asia, finds that the slowdown is real, and offers five game-changing events that are reshaping the global economy.

BY ANTOINE VAN AGTMAEL | JUNE 11, 2012

Something's Rotten in Athens

Scenes from a failing economy.

BY TIMOTHY FADEK | JUNE 6, 2012

The Financial Guns of August

Is it too late to stop Europe's impending economic disaster?

BY JOHN QUIGGIN | JUNE 5, 2012

Grexit? Spexit? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Everyone wants southern Europe's troubled economies to go their own way, except for the people who live there.

BY EDWARD HUGH | MAY 31, 2012

Europe's Big Fat Greek Heart Attack

A diet can't save them now. Time to get that defibrillator ready.

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | MAY 21, 2012