Europe's instability mechanism
[2010-12-23 10:50]By 2010, Europe was to be "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based society in the world."
The non-smoking gun
[2010-12-20 10:33]For Latin America, Wikileaks has so far provided enticing tidbits of both gossip and substance about Brazil and Argentina; interesting, first-rate analysis regarding Honduras, Bolivia, and Mexico.
The risk tsunami
[2010-12-15 14:12]It is time for the G-20 to take seriously its mandate to agree on steps to stabilize the global economy and launch it on a more sustainable pattern of growth.
WikiLeaks' flawed answer to a flawed world
[2010-12-15 14:01]"Anonymity in itself should not be illegal. There are enough good reasons for people to be anonymous that it should be [allowed] – at least in some places on the Net (as in real life)."
No, you can't
[2010-12-11 16:42]Several thousand officials from 194 countries just gathered in Cancun, Mexico, for yet another global climate summit.
Thinking the unthinkable in Europe
[2010-12-11 16:32]When Greece was bailed out by a joint eurozone-IMF rescue package back in May, it was clear that the deal had bought only a temporary respite.
Europe's inevitable haircut
[2010-12-10 08:58]What once could be dismissed as simply a Greek crisis, or simply a Greek and Irish crisis, is now clearly a eurozone crisis.
Europe's time to learn
[2010-12-06 09:52]Crises are a chance to learn. For the past 200 years, with the exception of the Great Depression, major financial crises originated in poor and unstable countries, which then needed major policy adjustments.
The euro at mid-crisis
[2010-12-03 11:33]Now that the EU and the IMF have committed €67.5 billion to rescue Ireland's troubled banks, is the eurozone's debt crisis finally nearing a conclusion?
The fear profiteers
[2010-12-01 09:26]Just when it seemed that America's "Homeland Security state" could not get more surreal, the US Transportation Security Administration has rolled out a costly Scylla and Charybdis at major airports.
China's monetary sterilization
[2010-11-30 10:04]Not long after the US Federal Reserve Board announced its second round of "quantitative easing", the People's Bank of China announced two increases of 0.5 percentage points in the required reserve ratio of bank deposits.
Quantitative easing and the Renminbi
[2010-11-29 10:35]The US Federal Reserve's policy of "quantitative easing" is reducing the value of the dollar relative to other currencies that have floating exchange rates.
