The global economy needs strong institutions and coordinated international action. Concerted international efforts, with adequate representation from developing countries, are required to accelerate ...

Joe Biden’s rhetorical strategy is simple. Everything is about jobs, America, and more jobs. “Some of you at home wonder whether these jobs are for you. You feel left behind and forgotten in an ...

The challenges associated with preventing, managing, and resolving natural resource-induced conflicts may well come to define global peace and security in the 21st century. Most violent conflicts that ...

If you understand a few principles of economics, you can see such principles playing out in your personal life every day. I’ve said that to micro econ classes for 40 years. And it certainly was true ...

Twenty years ago, the catastrophic loss of life in the Sept. 11 attacks quickly gave way to twin existential and economic crises in New York City. The metropolis mourned, the local economy bled ...

As we emerge from the pandemic, economic recovery is on everyone’s minds. Cities around the world are grappling with the intersecting challenges of inflation, climate change and deep systemic ...

Between 1998 and 2019 prices for “Medical Care Services” in the US (as measured by the BLS’s CPI for Medical Care Services) more than doubled (+117.2% increase) while the CPI for “Hospital and Related ...

The most recent country to feel the heavy hand of Beijing’s economic coercion is Lithuania, which in November 2021 opened a “Taiwan Representative Office” (駐立陶宛台灣代表處) in Vilnius. The name ...

Between 1998 and 2020 prices for “Medical Care Services” in the US (as measured by the BLS’s CPI for Medical Care Services) more than doubled (+128% increase) while the CPI for “Hospital and Related ...