Global Economy

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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