The U.S. and European Union together make up about half of the global economy, and recovery is quite uncertain in both of…

The efforts of Brazil and Turkey to find a negotiated solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, which generated a negotiated…

Perhaps the wild swings in financial and stock markets over the last week will make people give closer scrutiny to what is…

With Venezuela’s economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from…

As I have noted previously, Latvia has experienced the worst two-year economic downturn on record, losing more than 25 percent of GDP.…

Imagine that the United States were spending an amount that exceeded 60 percent of its national income on the military and police.…

Throughout Venezuela’s record-breaking economic expansion, the government’s opponents – which includes most of the international media as well as Washington – were…

The United States and China seem to have reached an agreement with regard to the exchange rate between their two currencies. The…

Of all the misunderstandings that guide US foreign policy – including foreign commercial policy – perhaps the most important and long-lasting is…

Over the past year or two the IMF has made some positive changes in policy and in their published work, some of…