Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Attentive leaders in government and business continue to fret over America’s sluggish productivity growth.Attentive leaders in government and business continue to fret over America’s sluggish productivity g...
The Fundamental Lesson of Brexit Lies in Skellig Michael
Welcome to the end of the world’s first post-Brexit week. Do note that apocalyptic scenarios notwithstanding, the sun is still rising and setting.At the time of writing, global m...
The Fight Against Fat
Barack Obama’s presidency will forever be linked to his contentious, but ultimately successful, effort to enact comprehensive health care reform.Barack Obama’s presidency will forever be linked t...
The Approaching Hurricane
Hurricane Katrina remains the costliest natural disaster in United States history. So much of what the world knows of this 2005 storm centers on either its aggregate totals—a haunting death t...
Meet George Jetson
A few years ago, the acclaimed investor and author Peter Thiel pithily summed up the paucity of big-bang innovations: “We were promised flying cars and we got 140 characters.”A few yea...
What Prince Taught Us About the Global Economy
Towards the end of one of his early hits “1999,” Prince hauntingly foretold that, “life is just a party and parties weren’t meant 2 last.”Towards the end of one of his early...
Stuck in Second Gear
“Growth has been too slow for too long.” That was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, Maurice Obstfeld, writing last week about global economic conditions. “Growth has bee...
The World’s Most Precious Resource
Stroll down the Quai d’Orsay in Paris and you will find the French Foreign Ministry, art galleries, and something completely different: the Musée des égouts de Paris. Translated to ...
Who Will Make the Case for Trade?
Divided though the four leading presidential candidates are on so many topics, united they stand on one: the assertion that trade harms America.Divided though the four leading presidential candidates...
Voters in Distress
As the American presidential campaign continues its meandering twists and turns, last week brought a major surprise when Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary election.As the...
Venezuela Reels, Argentina Recovers, and Leaders Matter
One thing that unites all of the world’s companies and consumers is the need to comply with the rules and regulations of the jurisdiction in which they operate or l...
How to Kill Zika
Market failure has long been a staple of Economics 101. Today a textbook example can tragically be found amid the world’s growing fears related to the Zika virus.Market failure h...
Let the Games Begin—and Let the True Math Be Revealed
Here in the United States, the long wait ends starting today. In the great state of Iowa, in about 12 hours from this missive hitting your inbox voters will congregate in...
Lessons on Leadership
It is one of the most pressing issues facing companies, government agencies, and educational institutions: what are the most effective styles of leadership, and how can they be developed? It...
How Your iPhone Can Help Save the WTO—and the Climate
Fresh off the death of the Doha Development Round, the World Trade Organization greets 2016 seeking renewed purpose. Here is one: assuage the drift left after last month’s global climate c...
The Chinese Yuan, Global Markets, and Shooting Dirty Pool
Optimists that we are, your correspondents were looking for an exciting start to 2016. “Exciting” is one word that might describe the new year in global markets.Optimists that we are, you...
Survival of the Nimblest
Technology continues to remake large swatches of the global economy. Want Exhibit A that the world of finance is being transformed? How about banks deciding whether to lend to you...
Leaders Helping Leaders?
Once a year, The Wall Street Journal convenes in Washington, D.C. its CEO Forum, at which over 100 CEOs of global companies gather to engage with each other, with policy...