Caroline Freund of the World Bank writes at Barron’s about factors nations and companies will consider in the debate over the future of supply chains. Some economists are asking whether…
Reshma Kapadia of Barron’s highlights disturbing challenges for American companies doing business in China. Lester Ross has headed law firm WilmerHale’s office in Beijing since it opened in 2004, advising…
Reshmia Kapadia writes for Barron’s about a growing threat to retirement savings. Parents have long tried to set up their children for success, but today that assistance is costing ever…
Randall Forsyth of Barron’s documents a disturbing trend for deficit hawks. [T]he administration of President Donald Trump, the self-described “king of debt,” is running a budget deficit at an annual…
Matthew Klein argues for Barron’s that governments need to adopt stricter accounting standards. Governments hide what they owe and ignore what they own. Current practice “misses large swaths of government…
Jack Hough of Barron’s draws attention to the federal government’s ongoing debt problem. There’s no snooze button on the national debt clock, though you wouldn’t know it by the way…
Randall Forsyth of Barron’s places President Trump’s recent criticism of Federal Reserve policy in historical perspective. Trump’s Fed bashing went against recent administrations’ policy of maintaining respect for the central…
Princeton economist Alan Blinder has earned some well-deserved criticism in this forum. In the latest Barron’s, though, Blinder offers a great illustration of the difference between an economic and political…
Edoardo Campanella writes in Barron’s about dubious schemes designed to battle poverty in Europe. The poor don’t often decide elections in the advanced world, and yet they are being wooed…
Martin Feldstein explores the links in a column for Barron’s. The National Security Strategy released by the White House in early December differs from the previous congressionally mandated strategy documents…
Economics professor Barry Eichengreen of Berkeley rebuts some myths about the impact of automation in a column for Barron’s. Robots, machine learning, and artificial intelligence promise to fundamentally change the…
Dimitra DeFolis explains in a Barron’s column why Russian and Chinese efforts to prop up the Venezuelan economy are likely to have no more than a short-term impact. It was…