Global Economy

Steve Jobs at 30, weeks after leaving Apple: a candid 1985 Newsweek interview on getting fired, staying unbitter, and why customers cannot invent the future.

In 2011, China was pushing yuan trade settlement and 'dim sum' bonds. Would the renminbi displace the dollar? Fifteen years on, the answer is instructive.

Admired and reviled in equal measure: Goldman Sachs after the 2008 crisis, from TARP repayment to the $550 million Abacus fraud settlement.

As the eurozone debt crisis deepened in November 2010, Germans were buying gold and silver at a remarkable pace. On the history behind the flight to safety.

In November 2010, Wen Jiabao and Vladimir Putin agreed that China-Russia trade would be settled in yuan and roubles instead of dollars.

With Ireland's bailout agreed but its coalition collapsing, markets turned on Portugal and Spain — and a North Korean bombardment added fear.

Ireland sought an 85-billion-euro rescue in November 2010 — not from budget deficits but from a bank guarantee that swallowed the state. On the eurozone crisis.

Chinese acquisitions of Western firms make geopolitical headlines — but inside the acquired company, the experience is cultural and human before anything else.

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

In 2011 Google acquired a face-recognition startup — and then refused to ship the technology. The story of the one product Google held back.