Earlier this month, I sat on a panel in Monte Carlo, a hotspot of the establishment, discussing the question, “Why can't Europe be more like the US?”
Few Americans cast their ballot in the recent mid-term elections on the basis of foreign policy.
November's mid-term elections were a sharp rebuke to the vast expansion of government spending, deficits, and debt in the United States.
For many, if not most, Americans, the crisis that befell them in 2008 – leading to slow growth, rising unemployment, and high anxiety among voters – appeared to spring from nowhere.
The current tensions between China and Japan have revived talk about how far Japan has fallen since its glory years of the 1980's.
Common sense was an early loser in the scorching battle over the reality of man-made global warming.
Doomed to slow growth, the US of today, like the exhausted Britain that emerged from World War II, will be forced to curtail its international commitments.
Everybody agrees that the world economy is ill, but the diagnosis apparently depends on which corner of it you happen to inhabit.
G20 leaders who scoff at the United States' proposal for numerical trade-balance limits should know that they are playing with fire.
A major new target in the "Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development" that China just unveiled is to boost the growth rate for household (disposable) income so that it equals the growth rate of the country's GDP.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's government has announced some of the most draconian public-sector cuts any developed country government has ever attempted.
The United States' import bill now exceeds $2.4 trillion a year, more than twice that of China and greater than that of the 27 European Union countries combined.