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Project Syndicate: Two years ago, you and Dany Bahar warned that the persistence of the anti-immigration bias that Donald Trump had stoked among...
CAMBRIDGE – The British government was right to describe the recent bout of market volatility in the United Kingdom as having been fueled...
HONG KONG – Weeks before his return to the White House, US President-elect Donald Trump issued a pointed warning to the BRICS countries. “Go...
PARIS – Some prominent economists argue that the revolution in artificial intelligence – particularly the rapid development of generative AI –...
STOCKHOLM – Russian President Vladimir Putin frequently boasts about the strength of his country’s economy, claiming that Western sanctions only...
NEW HAVEN – Donald Trump’s inauguration as America’s 47th president will be historic in several ways. He will be America’s oldest president....
GENEVA – The COVID-19 pandemic killed an estimated 7.1 million people worldwide, causing global life expectancy to decline by 1.6 years between...
STOCKHOLM – In 2019, when Donald Trump first proclaimed that the United States should “buy Greenland,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen...
GENEVA – This year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where participants will address the theme of “Collaboration for the...
BRUSSELS – Mathematician Cathy O’Neil once said that an algorithm is nothing more than someone’s opinion embedded in code. When we speak of...
When it comes to assessing the likely economic impact of US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, examining his proposed policies...
BERLIN – We just got a foretaste of the bizarre stream of consciousness that will be emanating from the White House over the next four years: the...
PARIS – As artificial intelligence reshapes economies and societies, business leaders must consider how they will work with policymakers to govern...
BERKELEY – One of the more jaw-dropping policy ideas gaining political steam in the United States recently has President-elect Donald Trump and...
NEW YORK – In August 2021, the International Monetary Fund issued $209 billion to developing countries in the form of special drawing rights (the...
OXFORD – The brouhaha between the tech bros led by Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s nativist supporters over whether to restrict skilled immigrants...
LJUBLJANA – The standard interpretation of the Russia-Ukraine war is that it is a “clash of cultures” pitting Western liberalism against...
BOSTON – Fissures within US President-elect Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” coalition have appeared sooner than expected. By the end...
RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK – November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, dubbed the “Finance COP,” left many deeply...
BRUSSELS – “If one problem can be solved by the Europeans, it is the Yugoslav problem,” Luxembourg’s then-foreign minister, Jacques Poos,...
CAMBRIDGE – The world economy awaits with dread the arrival of Donald Trump’s trade tariffs. Trump clearly loves import duties and has promised...
PARIS – Failing to heed the lessons of past wars is a surefire recipe for future conflicts. While it is too early to draw all the relevant...
MINNEAPOLIS/MILAN/MUNICH – In 1990, more than one-third of the global population lived below the World Bank’s extreme poverty line ($2.15 per...
MADISON, WISCONSIN – Assessments of US President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to impose high tariffs on Chinese imports tend to focus on their...