The outgoing German chancellor is overrated at home and abroad.
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After Richard Nixon scrapped Bretton Woods, the U.S. currency’s exorbitant privilege only grew — because the U.S. embraced innovation, not regulation.
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A pandemic, fires, floods, popular unrest — it’s an intertwined pattern seen throughout history and even in the Bible.
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Forcing DiDi and Alibaba to toe the Communist Party line may help Xi build a police state but will stall the nation’s dynamic industry.
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Just as with airline security after 9/11, many "temporary" pandemic regulations are with us to stay.
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Latin American leaders on the right and left have not fared well against Covid. In other ways, too, the U.S. is increasingly resembling its neighbors to the south.
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Audrey Tang empowered Taiwan’s citizens. Dominic Cummings lost out to British bureaucracy.
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A major lesson of Covid-19 is that there is no distinction between natural and man-made catastrophes.
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Take it from a Scot abroad: We don't need another referendum.
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U.S. policy makers need to wake up to the potential of digital currency and electronic payments and the peril of allowing China to dominate them.
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America is a diplomatic fox, while Beijing is a hedgehog fixated on the big idea of reunification.
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Milton Friedman saw the great uptick of the 1970s coming, and Larry Summers has similar warnings today. Jerome Powell would do well to listen.
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