The Globalist

What are the potential consequences of increasing income inequality in the world’s largest economy?

Is Latin America’s largest country providing a global model for how to reduce poverty in lean budgetary times?

Why have bankers and their lobbyists been so successful in stymieing efforts to rein in the financial sector?

Was the second half of the 20th century — when capitalism became entwined with democracy, the welfare state and liberalism — just an unusual interlude?

Will the U.S. lead in technological innovation falter if the government can’t reap some of the rewards from its successful investments?

What can be done to make finance serve interests of the real economy?

Does the United States have a stellar credit record — or is it a nation of deadbeats?

Is the United States’ anti-regulation stance undermining its global power position?

How does Europe exercise world power? Isn’t doing it away from military battlefields a truly modern form of global leadership?

How could a nation become the world’s second-fastest growing economy despite having a weak, flailing state?