Finance

The Exclusion Zone

G-20 leaders are out of ideas and out of touch. No wonder their citizens are so angry.

BY MICHAEL J. CASEY | JUNE 19, 2012

Greeks Don't Want a Grexit

The pundits say that Greece will have to drop the euro after Sunday's election. But that's not what the Greek people want.

BY LOUIS KLAREVAS | JUNE 14, 2012

Fed Up

Yes, Jamie Dimon should lose his seat on the New York Fed board. But why stop there when America's financial regulation is such a mess?

BY HELEEN MEES | JUNE 12, 2012

Africa Takes Off

Sub-Saharan Africa is starting to shed its reputation as an economic laggard. The West should pay attention.

BY G. PASCAL ZACHARY | JUNE 11, 2012

How America Can Lead the Global Economy

What I learned at Bain Capital working with Mitt Romney: outsourcing is good and America's future isn't manufacturing, it's ideas. 

BY EDWARD CONARD | JUNE 7, 2012

Something's Rotten in Athens

Scenes from a failing economy.

BY TIMOTHY FADEK | JUNE 6, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

An  ex-president is convicted, England celebrates, and Angela Merkel feeds a penguin.

JUNE 1, 2012

The Window is Closing for Riyadh

The oil won’t last forever -- so Saudi Arabia’s government has to reform its economy if it wants to survive.

BY ROBERT LOONEY | JUNE 1, 2012

Grexit? Spexit? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Everyone wants southern Europe's troubled economies to go their own way, except for the people who live there.

BY EDWARD HUGH | MAY 31, 2012

Romney: Year One

What would happen if you took Mitt Romney's foreign-policy promises extremely literally?

BY DANIEL DREZNER | MAY 25, 2012

Down, but Not Out

Just because Brazil’s growth rates are slowing, doesn’t mean the doomsayers are right.

BY ALBERT FISHLOW | MAY 18, 2012

The Global Middle Class Is Bigger Than We Thought

A new way of measuring prosperity has enormous implications for geopolitics and economics.

BY SHIMELSE ALI, URI DADUSH | MAY 16, 2012

The FP Survey: The Future of NATO

Does the 63-year-old alliance still matter today? We asked politicians, scholars, and other observers from both sides of the Atlantic to weigh in.

MAY 14, 2012

The No-Show

What's really behind Vladimir Putin's surprising decision to skip the G-8 summit?

BY DMITRI TRENIN | MAY 11, 2012

Getting Ready for Life after Castro

Managing the transition to a democratic Cuba: A user’s guide.

BY JAIME SUCHLICKI | MAY 11, 2012

The Ravenous Dragon and the Fruits of Adversity

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | MAY 7, 2012

Only Germany Can Save Europe

The euro crisis is back with a vengeance -- and only Berlin can pull the continent from its economic doldrums.

BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 24, 2012

Bleak House

Will Europe's crisis get worse before it gets worse?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | APRIL 23, 2012

Smart Sanctions: A Short History

How a blunt diplomatic tool morphed into the precision-guided measures we know today.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY/JUNE 2012

Get an MBA, Save the World

If you want to work in international development, go work for a big, bad multinational company.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2012

The Many Spendors of Qatar

What the richest country on the planet looks like.

MAY/JUNE 2012

The Qatar Bubble

Can this tiny, rich emirate really solve the Middle East's thorniest political conflicts?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MAY/JUNE 2012

Occupy This!

An Occupy Wall Street leader highlights the global reach of his movement.

MAY/JUNE 2012

Dirty Laundry

If the West really wants to prevent developing countries from laundering money, it can start by cleaning up its own act.

BY PETER REUTER | APRIL 19, 2012

Artful Dodgers

The 6 countries where everyone runs the other way when the tax man comes knocking.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 13, 2012

Decoupling: Ties That No Longer Bind

Emerging market economies have protected themselves from global economic downturns.

BY PETER PASSELL | APRIL 4, 2012

A Better Bank

Why President Obama's curious nomination for the new chief of the World Bank could turn out to be a smart pick -- and an interesting indication of how aid lending is changing for good.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 26, 2012

Don't Hire This Man

Why Jeffrey Sachs is a terrible choice to be the next head of the World Bank.

BY SCOTT GILMORE | MARCH 21, 2012

The Chinese-African Union

Why is China spending $200 million for this new over-the-top headquarters for the African Union?

MARCH 19, 2012

Argentina's Dubious Boom

Argentina's economy has been coasting on its past successes. Don't be fooled.

BY ROBERT LOONEY | MARCH 14, 2012