In Davos, we see firsthand that the sunny and the snowy can coexist. The same holds true for bullish and bearish signals in the global economy this year.
Dr. Doom has taken to the airwaves, warning policymakers as well as the public that there is a high probability that a perfect economic and fiscal storm will erupt in 2013.
No matter where you look, social services are being cut at the very moment they are needed the most. These cuts are aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. But now, if what Roubini predicts comes to pass, the nonprofit world will have a catastrophe on top of a crisis.
The "G-zero world" is a sober account of the current leaderless world, but it barely carries any heuristic or normative value to help us define what will come next.
At the Council on the Future of Europe, the dominant note was of nervousness at the state of Spain's financial system, combined with resolve to rally German opinion behind greater fiscal coordination and debt mutualization.
DAVOS, Switzerland -- The economist widely acknowledged to have predicted the financial crash of 2008 holds little hope that global economic troubles ...
Nouriel Roubini, internationally acclaimed finance pop star, demands the introduction of a new discipline at the universities of the world, that of "c...
WASHINGTON -- Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, millionaires who want the government to tax them more, met with foremost anti-tax guru Grove...
The lamentation of estrogen-laden Bridget Jones was echoed the globe over and is soon to be reanimated via a London musical circa 2012. Now hear it fr...
Should we believe that this time, after so many failed attempts also advertised as the real solution, the politicians have finally got it right? I don't think so.
Whether or not the the #Occupy Wall Street protesters explicitly adopt policy proposals or only generate political energy for the spirit of them, the Krugman/Stiglitz Army is at last on the march.
WASHINGTON -- Speaking at an infrastructure conference on Tuesday, Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine of Virginia laid out his vision for achieving...
Texas Governor Rick Perry, who recently announced that he is running for president in 2012, had some harsh words for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bern...
Egyptian people are out in the streets not just to meet but by their need to eat. Replacing a modern day Pharaoh may not be enough. He is not their only enemy.
The report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, festooned with its various Republican dissents, has receded into the past faster than this year...
But the nub of the crisis is this: "We have decided to socialize the private losses of the banking system. Now you have a huge increase in public debt...
People interviewed in Inside Job claim that finance professionals deserve their money. But can someone rationally argue that someone earning $30 million/year works 1,000 times harder than someone earning $30,000/year?
From mommies' to men's blogs, from food diaries to fanzines, the universal-access realm of online is a new storytellers' paradise with handy short installments as the universal language.
BERLIN/PARIS (By Erik Kirschbaum and Daniel Flynn): Germany and France declared on Monday that Europe had taken decisive action to save the euro by re...
Summers, no matter what some critics say, is a formidable intellectual heavyweight on economics policy -- and will continue to be, long after he leaves the White House. However, he needs to retool.