This article is the first in Foroohar’s series on Chinese business developments and their effects on the global economy; find the rest of the series here.
If you want to understand the history of modern China, a good place …
China, the U.S. and a Special Relationship in the Making: 5 Shared Economic Challenges
As President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping settle into conversation in California for the weekend, there’s talk of a new kind of G-2 alliance between the nations, and even a “grand bargain” over issues like trade, …
The Importance of Pork in China
Chinese government statistics are a black box, but one economic indicator you can always count on to reflect reality is demand for pork.
Money Talking: Where’s the Economy Headed This Summer?
Is the U.S. back? That’s the big question in the global economy right now. Earlier this week, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke suggested that he’d be tiptoeing away from the Fed’s asset buying program, perhaps as early as the fall, since the U.S. economy was showing signs of recovery. That news, along with weaker than expected …
Japan Market Crash: A Slow Leak in the “Central Bank Bubble”
There’s a truism in investing that the last one into a market is the first one out. And that certainly seems to be the case today, with Japan’s Nikkei index crashing off the back of two things: First, hints from the Federal Reserve that the U.S. economy is improving enough to justify a slow pull-back from the central bank’s …
Money Talking: Is College Worth It?
Should some college-bound students opt for a two-year degree at a technical school? Will an education give you a better life? Money Talking digs into the tough questions in the debate over the high cost of higher education and the mounting student debt that’s one of its byproducts. The central question: Is college worth it?
Investors Are Betting That Japan Is at a Tipping Point
A few weeks ago I wrote a column titled “The Barbarians Are Back,” which looked at how cash-rich U.S. firms were drawing the attention of “activist investors” — a.k.a. corporate vultures.
Well, American companies …
Dow 15,000: Don’t Fight the Fed, But Be Afraid
It’s hard to know what to make of this week’s record Dow performance except to say, “Don’t fight the Fed.” More than four years after the peak of the financial crisis, quantitative easing—the Federal Reserve strategy …
Money Talking: The Rise of the Activist Investor
Rana Foroohar (TIME) and Steve Bertoni (Forbes) join Charlie Herman (WNYC) on WNYC’s Money Talking to discuss the rise of the activist investor. Who benefits when the Carl Icahn’s of the world take on corporate America? Is the recent activity of shareholder democracy good or bad? Rana and Steve also weigh on what stories …
Money Talking: The War Over Smartphones
Joe Nocera (NYT) and Rana Foroohar (Time) join Charlie Herman (WNYC) on Money Talking discuss if the war over smartphones – Samsung vs. Facebook vs. Apple. Also, what affect the sequester is having on the economy.
Money Talking: How Mayor Bloomberg Impacts the Economy
Joe Nocera (The New York Times) and Rana Foroohar (Time) join Charlie Herman (WNYC) on Money Talking to examine Mayor Bloomberg’s past and future as businessman turned mayor in chief after a week where he was even more omnipresent than usual.
Money Talking: Stock Market Rises as Sequester Looms
If the sequester is so bad for the economy, why are stocks nearing record highs? And, will Marissa Mayer’s edict on work at home change corporate America? For more on this, and the top stories of the week ahead, tune into Time’s Rana Foroohar on WNYC’s Money Talking.