The COVID 19 pandemic is highlighting U.S. shareholder capitalism’s gross inequities.

The world has encountered a series of shocks over the past 15 years. This should lead to more realistic expectations about the timetable for further globalization moves.

Are there any lessons to be learned from China 60 years ago for today’s world, which is facing the worst pandemic of the past 100 years?

If history is to serve as a guide, xenophobia must be treated as a grave risk that is as contagious and as deadly as any virus.

The day when Fed Chairman Jerome Powell rode in to rescue financial markets to prevent their complete freezing up could have entered our history books as another global mega-crash.