Gold and other commodities seem to be signaling that the U.S. economy is sluggish and will get weaker still.
Emerging Markets
Stepping Out, Ethiopian Style
Shoemaker soleRebels, whose funky footwear is entirely designed and made in Ethiopia, is boosting its international profile.
Clinton Global Initiative: Can Companies Be Good and Do Well?
When it comes to determining the best approaches to solving the world’s economic and social ills, rational people can, and do, disagree. But there’s one point on which something approaching unanimity has emerged: That private …
What Happens When We Reach ‘Peak Car’?
Despite several strong months of new-car sales in a row, the average American is driving less and less each year. Drivers have been hitting the road less for years in countries such as France, Spain, Belgium, Australia, New …
Why the U.S. Fracking Industry Worries About the Weather in India
It’s all about a bean that is essential to making the technology flow, literally. In the meantime, Indian farmers have hit pay dirt.
Is India Innovative?
A new study by the credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s suggests that India may become the first “BRIC” country to lose its investment grade rating. Is a lack of innovation the reason?
The Myth of American Decline: An Interview with Author Daniel Gross
You don’t have to look very hard to find proof that over the past five years Americans have evolved into a very pessimistic bunch. Far more of us think the country is headed in the wrong direction than think it’s on the right …
How Cash Keeps Poor People Poor
Want to help the poor? Start by taking money out of their hands. More specifically, cash — coins and paper bills are the silent enemy of the poor, with costs often out of proportion with their day-to-day convenience.
A Tylenol Headache for the Chinese Communist Party
The fall of Communist Party leader Bo Xilai began as an exercise in crisis management for the Chinese Communist Party and it continues as such.
Bo — who is descended from Chinese Maoist royalty — had been flamboyantly …
Christine Lagarde: Emerging Market Nations Will Get More Power in the IMF
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), sees no alternative to the strict austerity policies being imposed on many peripheral European countries, says the double dip recessions in Italy and …