If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh thinks he has a difficult inflation challenge with Trump breathing down his neck for lower interest rates, he should spare a thought for Christine Lagarde, the ...

Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I serve ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce this month released its 2025 bulletin on outbound investment, and, surprise, things look good. Outbound investment climbed 11 percent past $213 billion, a new record. You ...

Mounting evidence presages a change in China’s AI strategy. Ever since Premier Li Qiang proposed China’s “AI Plus” initiative in 2024, Beijing has generally treated AI as a normal technology and ...

Troubles seem to be coming to the eurozone economy not as single spies but in battalions. These troubles include an Iranian-induced energy price shock, an onslaught of Chinese exports in the form of ...

Being early is the same as being wrong. It’s a Wall Street adage worth keeping in mind when evaluating extravagant claims about the potential economic impact of artificial intelligence. Caution is ...

Proponents of education technology have often made big promises about its potential to transform schooling, but so far, ed tech has failed to live up to its promise. Will AI also fail to deliver, or ...

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” It’s a great Oscar Wilde line, one policymakers should always keep front of mind. Be ...

The 29th Geneva Report on the World Economy assesses four major challenges currently confronting the global economy. First, global imbalances have re-emerged as a central issue, driven by China’s ...

Congressional Democrats keep choosing lawfare over dialogue. It hasn’t worked yet. As the 2025 New York mayoral election played out, President Donald Trump blasted Zohran Mamdani as a “100% Communist ...