The Globalist

Message to politicians and economists: Learning to deal with the world as it is, not as we want it to be.

To get ahead, the UK should adapt German strategies.

Instead of pushing for cross-border financial deregulation, the United States should learn from other nations’ safeguards.

Are male and female financial analysts evaluated on the basis of different criteria?

Are US regulators making it easier for Wall Street to return to pre-crash behaviors and export them to the world?

Is the U.S. housing market finally in recovery or are investors manipulating it again?

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

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

What steps should policy makers take to ensure that bank services are available to the broadest number of people?

Who still remembers that, before the advent of modern financial capitalism, power was wielded in much starker ways?