From the Spring 2020 issue
Is the World Still at Risk of the “Japan Disease”?
Three years ago, TIE asked whether significant parts of the world were at risk of becoming like Japan, with its high debt and stagnant economy. Now, with the world economy in meltdown as a result of the coronavirus, we ask the question again.
The Case for Reviving a Rules-Based Multilateralism
But what will be America’s role?
… on Powell, Trump, Covid-19, and Volcker. TIE Founder and Editor David Smick and Executive Editor Owen Ullmann interview Donald Kohn, former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Time for less talk and more smart action.
The Crypto-Renminbi Challenge to the Dollar
Maybe not soon, but it’s coming.
How poverty was dramatically reduced.
Despite his poor performance, Modi remains popular.
Its strength is in its boring stability and political reason.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The European Central Bank’s struggles between two courts of justice.
“A Meaningless Jeremiad Presaging Armageddon”
A review of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.
The Great Trade Liberalization Debate
A review of Free Trade and Prosperity: How Openness Helps Developing Countries Grow Richer and Combat Poverty by Arvind Panagariya.
Fears of the shrewd Chinese superpower, Hong Kong sanctions, India’s land pool, and dependence on Chinese pharmaceutical exports.
A changed America.
The Rodney Dangerfield of the global order.
Europe’s Covid-19 battle.