Tag: world views
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World Views | If China shrinks, it’s the world’s problem
China’s slowest population growth in decades may be felt more acutely beyond its borders than within them. The economy will keep humming and incomes can continue ... -
World Views | Southeast Asia’s economies look more submerged than emerging
Times are tough when you’re wrestling with Covid-19, recession — and a rapidly recovering America. The U.S. offers superior rates of growth, a prospect once considered outlandish, and ... -
World Views | Europe starts to feel the vaccine effect at last
The European Union’s Covid-19 vaccination rollout had looked like a crossbetween a bad joke and a bad dream. Almost everything that could go wrong did: Logistical failures, supply ... -
World Views | Unseen digital cash will stretch your money
Away from the cryptocurrency craze, important changes are taking place in how financial institutions move funds. Unlike the upcoming digital yuan or the keenly awaited Britcoin and FedCoin, a wholesale version ... -
World Views | Hong Kong bites the hands that care for it
It hasn’t been an edifying few days for Hong Kong. After a domestic worker from the Philippines was found late last week to have contracted a more infectious ... -
World Views | Biden pitches big government as antidote to crises
Forty years ago, a newly elected American president declared government the source of many of the nation’s problems, reshaping the parameters of U.S. politics for decades ... -
World Views | Google’s ad resurgence is just getting started
Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. is turning out to be one of the biggest winners of the economic reopening trade. On Tuesday, the company posted first-quarter sales results ... -
World Views | Four ways companies can adapt to deglobalization
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the trend toward freer movement of goods, capital and people known as globalization was facing severe headwinds in the form ... -
World Views | Biden’s Earth Day party invites the world but courts Americans
The original Earth Day on April 22 in 1970 drew Americans’ attention to their planet. This year’s is designed to draw the planet’s attention to Americans. President Joe Biden’s climate ... -
World Views | How much of China’s GDP was made in America?
China kicked off the year with a record expansion that even surpassed the glory days of the 1990s, when manufacturing and export stardom beckoned. The first-quarter ... -
World Views | The pandemic will be more deadly this year
Covid-19 is going to kill more people in 2021 than it did last year. If you want to see why, look at what’s happening in India. Cases have ... -
World Views | EU’s bond bonanza will reshape the capital markets
The fixed-income landscape is set to be transformed as the European Union revs up to borrow $1 trillion by selling bonds in its own right. While talk ... -
World Views | Don’t write off China’s vaccines — the world needs them
It’s been an awkward time for the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Gao Fu was cited over the weekend as telling a health ... -
World Views | The world’s biggest luxury group looks ready for a great year
Some good news for the luxury industry: There’s no sign of all that revenge spending running out of steam. Despite pandemic restrictions still gripping many parts ... -
World Views | The FDA’s caution on the J&J vaccine is a costly mistake
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s decision to recommend a pause in distribution of the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine has been roundly — and rightly — condemned across the political ... -
World Views | Europe is heading toward a new financial crisis
Europe faces a predicament. Even as it struggles to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s setting itself up for another crisis — this one financial. To ensure ... -
World Views | Where America’s vaccine triumph fell short
It’s not surprising that pharmacies are turning out to be fantastic at distributing Covid-19 vaccines. As Alex Tabarrok and I pointed out in February, they are literally everywhere — 86% of ... -
World Views | Financial cooperation can help fight the pandemic
The IMF’s new economic forecast offers encouragement to the world’s rich countries. They’re on track to recover strongly from the pandemic. For many poorer countries, the opposite ... -
World Views | Hong Kong is giving itself another identity crisis
The Hong Kong government’s proposal to let directors obscure their identities on the companies register is a retrograde step that will facilitate fraud and corruption. Don’t ... -
World Views | Some of China’s grand plans have gotten a little smaller
China’s state planners are notorious as purveyors of billions of yuan of budgetary spending, intimidating industrial policy and soaring technology goals. The Five-Year Plan — Beijing’s periodic, Soviet-style ... -
World Views | Telemedicine will be great after Covid, too
People have been predicting the ascent of telemedicine since the 1920s, but even mass broadband use wasn’t enough to make it catch on. Doctors were too worried ... -
World Views | Can the world survive without dollar diplomacy?
The Federal Reserve’s rescue of the global financial system one year ago prevented a public health crisis from degenerating into market chaos. When histories of the ... -
World Views | Airline change fees shouldn’t return after Covid
Airline change fees are a pre-pandemic relic and they should stay that way. In 2019, U.S. carriers generated $2.8 billion in revenue from penalizing customers for changing a ... -
World Views | After Covid, let’s keep our masks on
It has been a year since the pandemic hit India and, for me, the oddest thing is how healthy I’ve been. Like most but not all ... -
World Views | Let’s cut capitalism some slack
In the annals of 21st century capitalism, Covid-19 will go down as a pressure cooker. The pandemic has put enormous strains on livelihoods, individual well-being, healthcare systems, the ... -
World Views | When is equal pay day for white women?
Every year, the American Association for University Women marks Equal Pay Day, illustrating how far into the new year women would have to work to make as much ... -
World Views | The business case for vaccine passports
Once people have been vaccinated against Covid-19, they’re safer to dine out, fly on airplanes, attend concerts and movies, work out at the gym, go ... -
World Views | Blackstone puts too many chips on a $6.2 billion casino bid
It’s not hard to see why Blackstone Group Inc. would see value in the stricken Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd. The private equity firm, which ... -
World Views | The US military must get serious about domestic extremism
Among the unsettling revelations about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is the number of rioters who served in the military. Of the more ... -
World Views | To win over Asia, talk trade
President Joe Biden is showing he understands that Asia matters. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Japan and South Korea this week ... -
World Views | There’s not a lot of bull in China’s markets and investors are frustrated
Investing in China’s $10.7 trillion stock market is a frustrating business. Over the years, the bull phase has been getting shorter and narrower, making buy-and-hold a ... -
World Views | Sit back, relax and let the US economy run hot
Thanks to a $1.9 trillion stimulus package and accelerating vaccinations, prospects for a heavily caffeinated U.S. recovery are boosting growth projections around the world. For some ... -
World Views | Hong Kong’s latest Covid surge began in a gym, so it’s targeting kids
Hong Kong’s children are at the center of the city’s latest ham-handed and inconsistent response to the latest outbreak of the disease. And it’s not a good look for one of ... -
World Views | Should I stop talking now? Why we’re so bad at conversation
I’ve always felt that Jean-Paul Sartre narrowly missed the target. Hell is not necessarily other people. More precisely, hell is small talk. There: I’ve outed myself ... -
World Views | Reflation, rotation, hot money, cold feet, let’s call the whole thing off
A lot of speculative capital, so-called hot money, has flowed into China lately. Last year, foreigners — lured by Beijing’s successful Covid-19 containment and swift economic recovery — ...
