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The Dangers of US Style Financial Engineering

By Martin Hutchinson, September 21, 2018

Financial engineering has paid much better dividends for corporations than actual engineering. For the health especially of the U.S. economy, this needs to be reversed.

Paul Manafort’s Europe Connection

By Frank Vogl, September 19, 2018

Former European leaders took secret cash for their engagement in Ukraine. Will that have consequences?

“Cool” Germany, Really?

By Martin Hüfner, September 18, 2018

The Economist’s recent feature on today’s Germany as a model for all of Europe was fake news. The signs of crisis – mainly a widespread complacency – are already visible in financial markets.

The Europeanization of the Anti-Europeans

By Andrés Ortega, September 17, 2018

The big prize being eyed by the anti-European and xenophobic parties are the elections to the European Parliament next May.

UK: Slave to Europe?

By Rupert Strachwitz, September 16, 2018

With Brexit, the British government remains depressingly out of touch with the world.

The Supreme Court of India Has Decriminalized Homosexuality

By Gurcharan Das, September 15, 2018

For 157 years, Indians have lived under a tyrannical colonial law that was contrary to our country’s ancient spirit.

Minimum Wage Clauses in Trade Agreements: Barking Up the Wrong Tree

By Uwe Bott, September 14, 2018

It can feel very rewarding emotionally to blame Mexicans (and other foreigners) for one’s economic plight. It is far less satisfying to yell at robots.

Economic Reason Returning to Turkey?

By Uwe Bott, September 13, 2018

The surprisingly strong interest rate hike in Turkey makes a recession even more likely.

Trump and the Minimum Wage: How to Trade with Mexico

By Ira Straus, September 13, 2018

The Trump trade deal with Mexico is, in a smaller way for now, another of those rare Nixon in China moments. It has the potential to alter the arc of contemporary history.

Party Vs. Faith: China Drafts Restrictions for All Religions

By James M. Dorsey, September 12, 2018

UN and U.S. criticism put pressure on the Islamic world to speak out against China's actions to rein in Islam at home.

Republicans and the US’s Heavily Managed Democracy

By Stephan Richter, September 12, 2018

Can Republicans' efforts to tilt U.S. democracy toward feudalism be stopped?

Trump Vs. the U.S. Separation of Powers

By Stephan Richter, September 11, 2018

How it has taken a political novice in the White House only a year and a half to hollow out the centuries-old system of the U.S. separation of powers.

Boorish Johnson, Domestic Terrorist

By Denis MacShane, September 10, 2018

Do the disgusting comments Boris Johnson hurled at Theresa May finally mark the end of Boris Johnson’s career in British politics? Might emigration to Trump’s America be his only option?