Tag: world views
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World Views | Netflix needs a baby Yoda
Chess sets commemorating a recently popular television series are selling for upwards of $99. But “The Queen’s Gambit,” Netflix Inc.’s hit miniseries about a fictional chess prodigy, ... -
World Views | Saudi oil attack is nothing like the last one
Brent crude is, once again, scraping $70 in the aftermath of a missile attack on critical Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Yet in every other respect, Monday ... -
World Views | So far, Biden’s Iran policy isn’t Trump’s — or Obama’s
When it comes to President Joe Biden’s Iran policy, the safest thing to say is that it’s a work in progress. On the one hand, the ... -
World Views | How farmers could fight climate change (and make a profit)
Agriculture has never been a principal focus of efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. But farm emissions — which make up about 10% of the U.S. ... -
World Views | The whole web pays for Google and Facebook to be free
Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what they don’t ... -
World Views | Carbon emissions made a rapid recovery from Covid
The chief benefit of the International Energy Agency’s new monthly data on global carbon emissions, published yesterday, is getting to see just how awful our predicament ... -
World Views | Trump’s not-quite-triumphant return
The former president made a semi-Trumphant return on Sunday. Donald Trump’s rapturous reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, made clear that the conservative movement, ... -
World Views | Tailored ads are killing the informed consumer
In many ways, the tailored advertising that supports much of the internet works pretty well. It helps people with money figure out where to spend it ... -
World Views | Stop worrying about extremely unlikely Covid risks
The USDA has now announced that there’s “no credible evidence” that people can get Covid-19 from touching packages in the grocery store. At first blush, this ... -
World Views | China and Russia are beating the West at vaccine diplomacy
It was encouraging to see G7 leaders including France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Angela Merkel and the U.K.’s Boris Johnson all on the same page when it ... -
World Views | Bitcoin stocks are possibly the dumbest Bitcoin play
If you believe in Bitcoin, you buy Bitcoin. And if you’re wary, you stay away. That’s about the simplest way of calculating your investment options when ... -
World Views | The real battle for the City of London
Britain’s departure from the European Union has left a visible mark on the City of London. Almost overnight at the start of January, the world’s preeminent financial ... -
World Views | China’s bad loan season descends again and this time it may be really bad
It happens again and again. Every time Chinese banks start sweeping their books of bad loans, investors are convinced it will be the tail-end of a chronic problem. Somehow, ... -
World Views | Fox News follows the money away from Trump
Fox News, calling itself a “center-right” network, is distancing from Donald Trump and effectively reminding investors that its political coverage and on-air roster are more profit strategy than ... -
World Views | Marjorie Taylor Greene is Trump’s true heir
It’s clear that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t care too much what her congressional colleagues think of her: The day after she was stripped of her committee assignments ... -
World Views | Europe must stand with Navalny
For a second consecutive week, tens of thousands of Russians have taken to the streets to protest the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Judging from ... -
World Views | It’s time to move on from the Reddit trade
It’s been an exciting distraction while everyone is working from home but the actual ability of the Reddit mob to move markets, become a systemic risk ... -
World Views | Vaccine trade wars have just one winner: Covid-19
Vaccine nationalism is escalating in a world where Covid-19 is everywhere, yet the life-saving medicines needed to fight it are scarce. The temptation to hoard doses ... -
World Views | Why Europe’s vaccine politics are worse than America’s
All politics is becoming vaccine politics. But vaccines are turning out to be more scarce in Europe, so the politics there will turn out to be ... -
World Views | China gets a message that Taiwan is a bipartisan US issue
China flew a significant force of bombers and fighters near the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, one of the largest in an escalation of nerves over several months ... -
World Views | Biden inaugural wasn’t normal, but we’re getting there
That was almost … normal. And, as presidential inaugurations go, nicely done. Three excellent musical performances, an outstanding poem from Amanda Gorman, fully appropriate prayers from clergy. The ... -
World Views | Covid-19 vaccine passports are a ticket to nowhere
Every identity document brings its own dystopia. Austrian author Stefan Zweig, who saw the modern passport change international travel after the First World War, wrote: “Formerly man ... -
World Views | Citi’s new CEO must fix old problems fast
Jane Fraser is about to join an elite group. From next month, she’ll be one of a handful of women pulling strings in global finance. But ... -
World Views | Biden has already calmed the Middle East
Reconciliation is breaking out across the Middle East. A Saudi-led quartet of Arab states has ended a three-and-a-half-year embargo of Qatar. Turkey is seeking accommodations with France, Greece, Israel, Egypt, the United ... -
World Views | China’s Very Distressed Developers Are Also Very Clever
Wary of billion-dollar defaults, China does not want its daredevil real estate developers to take on any more debt. Banks have been asked to limit their housing ... -
World Views | America is making me feel like Sarah Connor
Lately I’ve been thinking about Sarah Connor and motherhood. She’s the Los Angeles waitress in the “Terminator” film series who, upon learning that her as-yet-unborn son ... -
World Views | Republicans’ electoral theatrics will do lasting harm
It’s a spectacle that precisely captures America’s current dysfunction: Nothing is really happening in Congress today [yesterday], yet something is being irreparably broken all the same. ... -
World Views | Why China is sentencing a tycoon to death
The bigamy conviction got a lot of the attention but Lai Xiaomin received a death sentence on Tuesday over a much more serious issue troubling China. ... -
World Views | NYSE just gave China Inc. one more reason to leave
What’s more shocking? Kicking out Chinese companies listed in the U.S., or a sudden U-turn from one of America’s biggest stock exchanges on its plan to do ... -
World Views | 2020 had a silver lining for math geeks
They say that hindsight is 20/20, and like many, I can’t wait for 2020 to become hindsight. But for math geeks like me, one thing was sure in a year of so ... -
World Views | Just send the bigger checks already
Let’s get down to brass tacks: Sending $2,000 in direct payments to Americans is a politically effective but economically inefficient way to provide needed relief to ... -
World Views | Covid’s worst should be over by Valentine’s Day
Watching the U.S. Covid-19 data every day, as I tend to do, has been a grim ritual. In my neighborhood, in the places where my friends ... -
World Views | Boris Johnson unleashes the animal spirits with Brexit deal
The completion of the long-awaited Brexit trade deal comes just as U.K. markets closed for the Christmas break, but things are set fair for next year ... -
World Views | If Facebook broke up, would anyone notice?
What would happen if Facebook disappeared tomorrow? Would people suddenly be unable to communicate online? Would the economy screech to a halt? Would anyone be deprived ... -
World Views | China just showed how much the world needs it
The world needs China more than ever. Thank goodness it’s showing up: Economic data released yesterday all looked strong and in line with forecasts. The upbeat projections for ...
