The Globalist

A property king’s guide to U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century.

U.S. stock prices have exhibited a pattern of behavior as erratic as that of the U.S. commander in chief.

Trump’s legacy might just be how American faith in capitalism, which began its descent following the financial crisis of 2008, began to truly wither on his watch.

The U.S. model of shareholder capitalism only benefits the top 10% of society. Northern Europe’s codetermination model expands economic opportunity.

Financial engineering has paid much better dividends for corporations than actual engineering. For the health especially of the U.S. economy, this needs to be reversed.

Facebook, Google & Co. are the new quasi-royal sovereigns. Their algorithmic de-facto laws do not require the approval of any of our parliaments.

All of us must resist the impulse to go blame-gaming and making every international relationship a zero-sum game.

Applying Marx’s theories to today’s Communist China.

Adam Smith was no blind worshipper of the market economy. He pointed to many of the deformations of human behavior that we still deplore today.

Why can’t the U.S. follow the example of other, truly democratic nations in limiting the influence that very rich people can have on elections?