Trump weakens China’s currency, cries foul
Jon Healey
The Dow Jones industrial average went on a 900-point freefall Monday after China allowed its currency, the yuan, to weaken beyond the seven-to-a-dollar...
Don’t put your valuables in the bank
MATT LEVINE
Banks are places to store your money, but not really. Not literally. It’s not like you hand your money to the teller and...
The fall of the economists’ empire
Robert Skidelsky
The historian Norman Stone, who died in June, always insisted that history students learn foreign languages. Language gives access to a people’s culture,...
Congress must not cede its authority to raise debt
PAUL WINFREE
Last Friday Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asked Congress to increase the debt limit. And so begins another contentious debate.
Throughout our nation’s history, Americans...
Should you buy ASX bank share for 8.3pc dividend?
Sebastian Bowen This ASX bank’s share price is up almost 15% for this year so far, and up more than 20% if you include...
Hong Kong and Taiwan preview China’s future
Joseph Bosco
The people of Hong Kong have demonstrated dramatically — and until Monday, nonviolently — that they reject Beijing’s heavy-handed tactics in eroding the...
Funding research is essential
FRASER MOONEY
With the 2020 presidential race heating up, candidates are condemning gun violence as a “national epidemic” and “public health emergency.” This should come...
Why cryptocurrencies are facing an uncertain future
The cryptocurrency industry's leader, Bitcoin, has been on an upward journey this year, gaining a massive 188.62 per cent year-to-date. But the road looks...
The IMF: buyers beware
Shahrukh Rafi Khan
THIS short essay makes four points. First, the IMF serves global capital (finance and multinational corporations (MNCs)) by creating opportunities for it....
Bank stress tests need to be more stressful
LONDON: This week, the Federal Reserve will release results from its most recent round of stress tests, in which it subjected the country’s largest...