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 about losing income, privacy

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 Covid-19 pandemic are written,

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 flight booking, according to the Transportation

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 of the people I

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 viability of firms and

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 as men did the

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 to the office, cross borders

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 is offering to take over the operator

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 than 300 people so far charged with

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 — their first trips abroad

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 losing game. From trough to

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 important emerging markets, however,

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 the world’s most affluent

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 again as an introvert and curmudgeon. But

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 —  snatched up a record

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, isn’t the theme. It’s HBO’s

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 is nothing like the last

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 Biden administration is trying to

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. total — are coming under

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 highlight is their role in making

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