The Globalist

A reality check on what’s really ahead for US infrastructure, tax cuts, health care and protectionism.

As Fed Chairman, Greenspan utterly failed to limit leverage and bubbles, and this failure magnified financial fragility.

The Federal Reserve going about the process of tightening in the wrong way could have severe global repercussions.

The 1888 Great Debate over US trade policy inspired literary luminaries like Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to take sides.

How the 1888 elections decided the protectionist course of U.S. economic expansion for decades to come.

How the nineteenth-century battle between free trade and protectionism shaped the global economic order.

Hillary Clinton needs to become an advocate of German-style codetermination in order to break with the Obama legacy of stagnant wages.

Does criticizing and downplaying other nations help Americans feel better about themselves?

Choosing Romer as World Bank chief economist attempts to restore past U.S. dominance in development banking.

U.S. elites claiming moral superiority by demanding that other people do the sacrificing on trade issues is unprincipled hypocrisy.