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[Anjani Trivedi and Shuli Ren] China’s default wave spares the biggest fish

Brace yourself: A growing number of hard-up Chinese borrowers are not making good on their debts. The pattern is all too familiar. After a record year of defaults in 2018, two big issuers failed to...

February 18, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Europeans grow tired of US-led alliance

As the US-led world order continues to fall apart, second-tier powers are trying to salvage what they can. But in Germany and France, at least, voters don’t really want the US to be part of the proce...

February 18, 2019
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[Noah Feldman] Democrats’ compromise strengthens case for wall ‘emergency’

In retrospect, it seems obvious that President Donald Trump would want to have his cake and eat it, too. That’s essentially what he was doing Friday by both signing a government funding bill that pro...

February 17, 2019
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[Cass R. Sunstein] Case for curbing social media getting stronger

The US government should not regulate social media. It should stay far away from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and the rest. Any regulatory effort might well violate the First Amendment. Even...

February 17, 2019
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What North Korea could learn from Vietnam

Vietnam is more than a convenient neutral site for the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which is slated for later this month. The Southeast Asi...

February 16, 2019
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[Nobuko Kobayashi] Japan’s women need more than jobs

Japan’s leaders seem happy to rest the country’s fate on the shoulders of its women. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to get more of them out of the home to compensate for a shrinking workforce. His d...

February 13, 2019
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[Shuli Ren] China’s 5G riches are a blocked number for investors

How can investors profit from China’s race with the US for 5G supremacy? Finding the answer is as tricky as figuring out the geopolitics. The nation’s sleepy telecom stocks came back to life after H...

February 13, 2019
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[Conor Sen] Older workers need different kind of layoff

The proposed merger between SunTrust and BB&T makes sense for both firms -- which is why Wall Street sent both stocks higher Thursday after the announcement. But employees of the two banks, especiall...

February 13, 2019
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[Andy Mukherjee] India’s shadow bank tumult casts widening gloom

It’s time India’s policymakers acknowledged the real problem facing the country’s shadow banks. What they are experiencing is no longer a vanilla liquidity shortage; the entire industry has crashed a...

February 12, 2019
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[Hal Brands] South America is battlefield in new Cold War

The political crisis in Venezuela has pitted the US against a dictator who refuses to leave office. But the crisis has a broader significance: It shows that Latin America has again become an arena in...

February 12, 2019
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[J. Kyle Bass] Trump shouldn’t take the easy way out over China

When it comes to the trade talks with China, President Donald Trump and his negotiators have more leverage than any US administration has ever had. Chinese policymakers are desperate for a trade truc...

February 12, 2019
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[Noah Smith] Wealth tax better than most alternatives

Close on the heels of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to tax top income at 70 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has released her own big idea -- a tax of 2 percent a year on all wealt...

February 6, 2019
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] Trump Supreme Court contingency plan

Every White House in the modern era has sought to be prepared in case a vacancy arises on the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump’s legal advisers don’t know much more than anyone else about the li...

February 6, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Want less graft? Allow more freedom.

Transparency International, the Berlin-based global authority on graft, accompanied its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018 with a warning that corruption gains where authoritarian and populist lea...

January 31, 2019
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[Therese Raphael Theresa may postpones her moment of Brexit reckoning

If Britain‘s Parliament were the final arbiter of Brexit, Tuesday night’s vote would have been historic. It would have been a crowning achievement for Prime Minister Theresa May: Leavers and Remainer...

January 31, 2019
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