Tag: world views
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World Views | Greece would be better off just leaving the euro zone
Does Greece belong in the euro area? This fundamental question has divided Europe’s governments for months, and still does. The deal just announced only pretends to ... -
World Views |Malaysia must overcome legacy of patronage politics
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak may very well be, as he insists, innocent of charges that nearly USD700 million in government-linked funds ended up in his ... -
World Views | Greek referendum wasn’t what you think
The thumping win for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Sunday’s referendum is being celebrated as a moment of clarity – by core supporters of Tsipras’s ... -
World Views | Greek referendum offer is more con than democracy
The Greek parliament has approved a referendum to decide whether to accept the latest bailout terms offered by the country’s creditors. It will come too late and ask the ... -
World Views | Chinese investors are swimming in a giant bubble
JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock disagree about China’s stock bubble. The former says last week’s 13 percent share plunge is a reason to buy; the latter sees things ... -
World Views | Japan corporations act like it’s 1985
The Japanese government’s newfound embrace of international corporate governance standards has the potential to be an epochal moment for the country’s economy. Shareholders are now being encouraged to challenge ... -
World Views | Hong Kong is embracing China’s investment bubble
Bill Gross of Janus Capital says his next great short trade may be Chinese stocks. With the Shenzhen and Shanghai markets up another 9 percent last week, ... -
World Views | Stop calling China a currency manipulator
Christine Lagarde’s people say China’s currency is no longer undervalued. Jacob Lew’s argue it still is. There’s a lot at stake in the debate: The yuan can’t ... -
World Views: Janet Yellen takes a back seat to China
Traders have been panicking over the sudden rise in global bond yields triggered by the expected tapering of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus programs. But an unlikely ... -
World Views: HSBC should move to Hong Kong ASAP
In retrospect, HSBC’s decision in 1993 to abandon Hong Kong for London’s Canary Wharf was one of modern history’s worst business moves. It seemed perfectly wise ... -
World Views: Asia’s growing China problem
Asia has a China problem. Beijing has just initiated its biggest cut in bank reserve requirements since 2008, a move that underscores just how worried it is about ... -
World Views: China’s great wall of sand
China is building new harbors and airstrips on various reefs and atolls in the Spratly Islands – facilities that, Beijing confirms, will be used for military ... -
World Views: How not to deal with China
China’s creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the bungled U.S. response have given Beijing a nice diplomatic win. Not hugely consequential in itself, the episode ... -
World Views: Debt could derail China’s ambitions
China’s Xi Jinping made a lot of grand promises over the weekend, pledging a new order where China and Chinese-led institutions such as the new Asian Infrastructure ... -
World Views: Cruz’s fiery message has limited appeal to some Republicans
As a messenger, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has fire. It’s the message that’s the question for him. Cruz opened his official campaign for U.S. president Monday, ... -
World Views: After Lee, Singapore needs a rethink
I failed to impress Lee Kuan Yew when we met for the first time a decade ago. It was in December 2004 in Bangkok and he ... -
World Views: How Asia should defend against the rising dollar
Can Asia beat the rising-dollar curse? The question is far from academic considering the central role that a strengthening U.S. currency played in sparking the region’s 1997 crisis, ... -
World Views: Asian airlines are beginning to run out of pilots
Asia’s aviation market is booming, but the supply of pilots isn’t nearly keeping pace with the demand for flights. Airlines are already struggling with shortages in ... -
World Views: More stimulus isn’t the answer to China problems
Few buzz phrases scare economists more than “new paradigm.” If such things existed, Japan would still dominate the world economy, risk would have been eliminated from ... -
World Views: Be west-coast American, or east-coast Chinese
A very senior journalist at the Financial Times once said to me: “Be American.” The person meant be positive. Don’t fear failure. Don’t worry about setbacks. ... -
World briefs
AUSTRALIA For more than a year, the three jailed Al-Jazeera journalists did their best to prepare for the unsettling possibility that one of them would be ... -
World Views: Not just in France but in Nigeria and Yemen too
For the past six days the west’s attention has been transfixed by the murderous attacks in Paris that left 17 people – cartoonists, security guards, police ... -
World briefs
NIGERIA Hundreds of bodies — too many to count — remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested ... -
World Views: The Rise of Bitcoin
Bitcoins introduced a lot of people to the idea of computerized money. Now the digital currency, which set off a minor frenzy when it broke into ... -
World Views: China’s Russia bailout is ominous sign for future
Thanks to China, Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund, Jim Yong Kim of the World Bank and Takehiko Nakao of the Asian Development Bank may ... -
Why I’ll soon be flying again on Malaysia Airlines
How grim can it get for Malaysia Airlines? Earlier this week the carrier announced that it’s offering no-questions-asked refunds or postponements on all tickets valid for ...
