The Globalist

The U.S. model of shareholder capitalism only benefits the top 10% of society. Northern Europe’s codetermination model expands economic opportunity.

The Trump administration uses diplomatic protocol to slap the EU in the face, while cuddling up to Putin and Erdogan.

Putin didn’t even have to recruit Trump for his project of destabilizing the United States. Americans are doing a great job of achieving it themselves.

Grass-roots interactions may not lay the groundwork for a viable relationship between the U.S. and China – but they can’t hurt.

The only force that could stop Trump if he ever tried to violate the Constitution would not be the Democrats, but probably the U.S. military.

Why financial markets in 2019 may offer positive surprises, despite — and actually because of — the current wave of pessimism.

The fallacy of seeking to reduce the U.S. trade deficit without raising U.S. savings rates.

Canada will always be at risk of being used as a proxy as the U.S. manages internal and external conflicts.

Economists cannot say with precision when the next U.S. recession will begin. But there is no reasonable doubt that the U.S. economy will weaken in 2019.

While Trump says it’s all the Fed’s fault, this is why U.S. stock markets are really collapsing.