Tag: world views
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World Views | Boris Johnson’s Brexit Divide-and-Rule Plan Is Failing
Wednesday was supposed to be Boris Johnson’s ultimate showdown: A face-to-face meeting with Ursula von der Leyen, boss of the European Commission, to make a once-and-for-all ... -
World Views | Don’t let Iran get away with hostage-taking
One year ago today, I was released from Iran as an American hostage in a prisoner swap. I went to Tehran in 2016 with little knowledge ... -
World Views | Can China’s Covid recovery continue?
In China’s post-Covid economy, there may be hope for the struggling private sector made up of millions of small businesses. It needs to stay that way. ... -
World Views | Women take the lead in vaccine development
The early history of vaccines is a male-dominated field. The science, which is currently showing spectacular results, is now led by women. Therein lies a lesson ... -
World Views | Zoom won big again. Why aren’t investors impressed?
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has had a monster year in almost every way. The video-conferencing upstart got a huge boost in the spring amid Covid-induced lockdowns, and ... -
World Views | Key question in Cosby appeal: Does defendant’s past matter?
In 2016, as Bill Cosby’s legal team prepared for trial in his stunning sexual assault case in Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court quietly heard a death ... -
World Views | Why Maradona was better than Ronaldo and Messi
Soccer fans are fortunate to live in a time when two superstars are simultaneously making the claim to be the best player in the history of ... -
World Views | China makes a safe space for consumers. Will they spend?
Emerging from nearly a year of battling an economy dragged down by Covid-19 and a rickety financial system, Beijing is realizing what the most important collateral damage has been: ... -
World Views | Go on, jump. A pile of soft dollars will catch you
The economic recovery from the coronavirus will have its share of false dawns. What’s unlikely to be derailed, however, is the wall of money sloshing through ... -
World views | As travel bubbles begin, don’t expect a miracle
This Sunday, the post-Covid travel era will begin at airports in Hong Kong and Singapore. Two hundred passengers, prescreened for the virus, will board flights in each city ... -
World Views | The only thing worse than a big default is a surprise one
In 2018, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited one of Tsinghua Unigroup Co.’s mega memory-chip factories in Wuhan, he said that semiconductor processing is the heart of a nation’s manufacturing ... -
World Views | Why Moderna’s vaccine win is a giant leap against pandemics
The world now seems likely to have at least two effective vaccines against Covid-19 with Monday’s announcement of positive early data from Moderna Inc.’s 30,000-person clinical trial. ... -
World Views | What’s the cheapest way to save all those phone photos?
If you’re used to storing your photos and videos for free in the Google cloud, then this week brought some bad news: The days of unlimited ... -
World Views | Lockdowns make perfect sense now
The development of what looks like an effective vaccine against Covid-19 has ignited hopes that the worst of the pandemic will be over relatively soon. If successful, it will ... -
World Views | Beijing just tore up China’s giant internet playbook
All the things that allowed China’s internet innovators to become big, powerful and hugely profitable are under threat. The implications are chilling for established players. Draft rules ... -
World Views | Pfizer vaccine data offers real pandemic optimism
Last week I wrote that based on clinical trial math, the earliest looks at coronavirus vaccine data were less likely to succeed. I’ve never been happier to be wrong. ... -
World Views | Hold the schadenfreude for America
An election that takes days to conclude? An incumbent who says he’s been cheated, and threatens not to leave? Armed vigilantes outside counting centers? The 2020 U.S. presidential election has ... -
World Views | Polling failed. It’s time to kick the addiction
For the second time in a row, polling has failed to correctly assess the mood of the nation heading into a U.S. presidential election. The debacle ... -
World Views | The Bank of England has a transmission problem
The Bank of England meets today against the backdrop of a newly imposed lockdown that’s designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but will also crimp ... -
World Views | China is getting ready for a world without Trump
In less than a month, two unusual things happened at the People’s Bank of China. First, it no longer required banks to set aside cash if clients wanted to ... -
World Views | What are the odds of a disputed election? pretty high
As U.S. Election Day nears, the possibility of a disputed presidential election is worrying a lot of people. You’ve heard the scenarios: An embittered Donald Trump ... -
World Views | The US and Europe still don’t see eye to eye on big tech
It’s tempting to imagine that the U.S. is finally catching up with Europe when it comes to skepticism — and regulation — of Big Tech. The reality is ... -
World Views | The lack of fiscal aid won’t wreck US consumer spending
In the world of investing, self-storage properties are about as bland as it gets. Then again, U.S. consumers are going to need a place to store ... -
World Views | Netflix may test just how essential it is
Forget dinner and a movie. As cinemas remain desolate, cooler weather puts an end to the enjoyment of safe outdoor dining and Covid-19 roars back across the world, ... -
World Views | Thailand’s leaders can’t afford confrontation
Anti-government marchers have been gathering across Thailand in defiance of a state of emergency, and their list of demands now stretches to include reining in the powerful monarchy. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha has indicated he wants to talk. ... -
World Views | We’re looking at the glass-half-empty recovery
The global economic ascent has begun. From encouraging data in Singapore to less-dire global forecasts and earnings from banking behemoths, the corner appears to have been turned ... -
World Views | Russia’s post-Soviet hegemony is fading
Vladimir Putin has long sought to portray himself as strong statesman and guarantor of stability, at home and abroad. Now the Russian president is grappling ... -
World Views | A crisis warning is in danger of being forgotten
Economies plotting their exit from the pandemic have a tough needle to thread: determining when to pivot from pumping out emergency aid to focusing on ... -
World Views | What happens if Trump is ‘unable’ to govern
Now that President Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19, the Department of Justice is almost certainly focusing on the 25th Amendment, which provides for ... -
World Views | Hot-desking is a good way to lose your best staff
Corporate bean counters must be tempted to slash office space as work-from-home advice resumes where Covid cases are surging. But succumbing will mean consequences for recruitment. It’s easy ... -
World Views | How Biden could avoid Obama’s biggest Iran mistake
In March 2015, as nuclear negotiations between Iran and the world powers entered the home stretch, 47 Republican senators wrote an open letter to Supreme Leader ... -
World Views | Trump’s WeChat ban is just a MAGA wall in cyberspace
Having failed to complete a huge wall along the U.S. southern border, President Donald Trump’s administration now seems desperate to build one in cyberspace for ... -
World Views | ByteDance is playing chicken with Trump on TikTok
There have been enough leaks over the past few days to get a sense of what the TikTok-Oracle Corp. deal looks like. The details are revelatory, ... -
World Views | Retailers think you can’t work in sweatpants forever
Consumerism is back in fashion in spite of the enduring Covid-19 pandemic. The biggest European clothing retailers Inditex SA and Hennes & Mauritz AB both demonstrated that demand ... -
World Views | Europe needs to recognize the threat from Russia
During two decades as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin has rarely concealed his contempt for Western-style democracy and the rule of law. The poisoning of Russian political activist Alexei ...
