Global Economy

Americans abroad renounced citizenship in record numbers in the early 2010s — FATCA, citizenship-based taxation, and compliance costs drove the trend.

April 16, 2012 · 1 min read

The former IMF chief was charged with aggravated pimping in the Carlton Affair probe. Three years later, a French court acquitted him of the charges.

March 27, 2012 · 4 min read

India was working toward the Washington Accord, which would give its engineering graduates international credential recognition. Two years later, it happened.

March 26, 2012 · 1 min read

When audience members fainted at Barack Obama's rallies, his response was unglamorous and dad-like: eat and drink before you come. Why the small moments worked.

March 16, 2012 · 1 min read

After Super Tuesday 2012, Mitt Romney was the GOP frontrunner. What his managerial, crisis-room style said about the candidate — and the country choosing him.

March 13, 2012 · 2 min read

In March 2012 India granted its first compulsory drug license: Natco Pharma could make a generic version of Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar at a fraction of the

March 13, 2012 · 2 min read

A Michigan man sued AMC over its no-outside-food policy and $8 popcorn. The lawsuit failed — but it exposed the strange economics of the movie business.

March 5, 2012 · 1 min read

Putin's tears in Manezhnaya Square after winning Russia's 2012 election — genuine emotion, staged vulnerability, or something else? What that night meant.

March 4, 2012 · 1 min read

How the hydrogen bomb works — fission-triggered fusion, the 1961 Tsar Bomba test at 50 megatons, and the paradox of mutually assured destruction.

January 8, 2012 · 1 min read

In 2010, a harassment complaint from contractor Jodie Fisher ended Mark Hurd's run as HP CEO. What the investigation found — and didn't — and why the letter

January 7, 2012 · 1 min read

From Cheney's famous quip to Modern Monetary Theory: the serious economic case for deficit tolerance, the hawkish counter-case, and what Japan teaches us.

January 3, 2012 · 1 min read

On April 13, 2011, the EU fined P&G €211.2M and Unilever €104M for a detergent cartel — Henkel blew the whistle and walked free; Colgate was never in the case.

December 9, 2011 · 1 min read

An original essay on the end of the age of abundance: from the 1959 Nixon-Khrushchev kitchen debate to the reckoning of living beyond our means.

November 30, 2011 · 2 min read

In autumn 2011 the eurozone's debt crisis had serious economists openly contemplating the unthinkable: the possible dissolution of the euro itself.

November 27, 2011 · 2 min read

Mona Simpson's eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs — the intimate portrait, the family story, and those final words: Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

November 2, 2011 · 1 min read

They had no demands, they were all unemployed dropouts — the Occupy Wall Street myths, and what the movement actually changed.

October 20, 2011 · 1 min read

October 15, 2011: Occupy goes global with London's 'Occupy the Stock Exchange' rally — Julian Assange and Peter Tatchell addressed the crowd at St Paul's.

October 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Manmohan Singh skips the 2011 Commonwealth summit in Perth — and the reason is Australia's refusal to sell uranium to non-NPT India.

October 16, 2011 · 2 min read

Occupy, Anna Hazare, China's factory strikes, Europe's austerity riots — the shared thread behind 2011's global wave of social unrest.

October 16, 2011 · 1 min read

With US unemployment hovering near 9 percent, Hallmark launched eight 'Job Loss' greeting cards — mixing encouragement with recession humour.

September 28, 2011 · 1 min read