The Globalist

Will elections in February help change the country’s economic fortunes? Or will it take something far more radical?

Is the U.S. becoming fundamentally incapable of agreeing on the most basic issues of fairness and decency?

What is worse — going over the fiscal cliff or emulating Europe’s economic policymakers?

Can the United States transform its consumption- and credit-based economy to one based on investment and saving?

Has the United States sacrificed its founding and traditional values in its conduct of foreign policy?

What’s “patriotic” about cutting taxes for the rich — and “empowering” the middle class by letting it pile up mountains of debt?

Is the success of higher education in the United States dependent on debt?

Will groupthink about bank capital ratios merely set the stage for yet another banking crisis?

Does the United States have to worry about a currency crash, just as the United Kingdom experienced in 1956?

Italy's political and economic future is just as shaky as it was before — maybe even more so.