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German Court Ruling on ECB Asset Purchases: FT

May 13, 2020
The German constitutional court ruled against the European Central Bank’s public sector purchase program, launched in 2015. Martin Wolf argues for the Financial Times that the move contributes to EU disintegration: “It is an attack on basic economics, the central bank’s integrity, its independence...

Prizes, Not Patents

March 19, 2007
The pharmaceutical industry relies on patent protection for profits and claims to reinvest those profits into more research for medicines that save lives. But the system has an inherent flaw when people with infectious diseases cannot afford the life-saving drugs and companies focus most effort on...

Diagnosing at a Distance

September 10, 2008
The poor are often the last to benefit from technological leaps in health care. But trained physicians and technological advances combined with the presence of a large number of poor dispersed throughout the Indian countryside could usher in changes for health-care delivery. Rapidly declining costs...

Globalization Has Done a Lot of Great Things for Americans

January 4, 2017
Globalization has delivered many benefits to those living in the United States and elsewhere around the globe: Panos Mourdoukoutas offers a quick summary: “It has helped America win the war on communism. It has freed Americans from government regulations and militant unions. It has assigned America...

Is China Up to the Challenge?

November 21, 2012
China has installed a new leadership team, but no one should hold his breath waiting for dramatic reforms, suggests China scholar David Shambaugh. China’s leaders understand the challenges of corruption, slowing growth, ethnic discontent, strained relations with neighbor states and trade partners,...

Stratfor: Egypt and Russia’s Motives for Expanding Influence in the Middle East

December 1, 2017
Russia is taking steps to strengthen its presence in the Middle East with a five-year “preliminary agreement with Egypt on the reciprocal use of air bases in each country.” Egypt is expected to sign the agreement that gives Russia access to the Northern Africa-Mediterranean region to help contain...

Growing Challenges of Energy and Environment – Part I

June 22, 2010
Emerging economies have joined developed nations in the wild scramble for energy, all taking greater risks in drilling for oil and gas supplies while largely shrugging about effects on climate, the environment or public health. Nations and corporations go to great lengths to explore and drill, but...

Brookings: The World Cup and Limits of Globalization

July 15, 2018
The World Cup and the soccer industry are symbols of globalization, with mass participation and players playing for clubs in countries other than their own. While some differences are swept aside, like Mohamed Salah being England’s player of the year despite Europe wrestling with Islamophobia,...
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