Is this the twilight of the screen age? When a beaming Mark Zuckerberg took the stage in Menlo Park on September 27th to announce a new array of Meta products, the Facebook supremo may have buri...
Are free markets history?
Sometimes, in wars and revolutions, fundamental change arrives with a bang. More often, it creeps up on you. That is the way with what we are calling “homeland economics”, a protectionist, high-s...
China Comes Under Growing Pressure to Fix the Country’s Housing Market
Economists and investors urge Beijing to take forceful steps as founder of developer Evergrande faces assets-transfer probe Oct. 1, 2023 9:00 pm ET A Wuhan housing complex that is being buil...
China Has Second Thoughts About Controlling Prices in Its Multi Trillion-Dollar Housing Market
Authorities imposed rules against ‘malicious’ price cuts but now are rethinking them, with hard-to-predict consequences for the economy A complex of unfinished apartments earlier this year in...
What Asia’s economic revolution means for the world
Links between the region’s countries are getting stronger. But America’s loss is not entirely China’s gain The phrase “factory Asia” describes one of history’s most impressive economic achieveme...
Republicans are turning against Ukraine
The House is looking increasingly divided amid talks of more aid When Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, arrives in Washington, DC, on September 21st he will find a changed American capital....
Remarks by President Biden Before the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly | New York, NY
United Nations Headquarters New York, New York 10:17 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Mr. President, Mr. Secretary-General, and my fellow leaders, about a week ago I stood on the other side of the world ...
China’s “demographic dividend” appears to be a myth
If youth didn’t drive past growth, is ageing bound to be disastrous? Change in China’s population by age, 1982-2015, m Change in share of population, 1982-2015 Since starting to open up ...
Biden Seeks Stronger Vietnam Ties in Bid to Counter China
President is visiting Hanoi after attending a gathering of G-20 leaders in India President Biden and Vietnamese leader Nguyen Phu Trong at a welcoming ceremony in Hanoi on Sunday. HANOI—The...
Wall Street is racing to manage your wealth. That is a good thing
The hottest trend in finance offers more than just fat profits for advisers “Where are the customers’ yachts?” asks a wide-eyed visitor to Manhattan, after his host points out the bankers’ and b...