The Globalist

Will China really halt technology transfers that it has required under many joint venture deals with U.S. companies?

Lower-income voters, at least in the U.S. and UK cases, care more about cultural messaging than their share of the economy.

The way in which US officials collaborated with shady characters abroad to turn foreign policy into a personal business should leave anyone speechless.

The Compact with Africa started off in the wrong way. High time to warn about the wrong course.

Thanks to interventions by Washington or Brussels, Nord Stream 2 may end up either not being completed or, once completed, find that much of the pipeline cannot in fact be used.

The Putin oligarchs are billionaires who serve at the discretion of the state. The original Yeltsin-type oligarchs owned the state.

Negative interest rates have a pernicious effect on human beings. They corrode the structures of society, culture and people’s mindsets, triggering widespread resignation and even nihilism.

Rather than having the ECB continue its path of raising just the boats of the rich, it is high time for the delivery of “helicopter money” to everyday Europeans.

We now witness the marks of the inverted universe of ultra-loose monetary policy and lax central banking.

Trump’s clumsy efforts to bully Zelensky have weakened both the U.S. and the Ukrainian leaders, while playing into Russian hands.