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November 17, 2019 Viewpoints

[Shuli Ren] China’s No. 1 university has a big debt problem

A crown jewel of President Xi Jinping’s Made in China 2025 plan is faltering. Tsinghua Unigroup is the business arm of the prestigious Tsinghua University, Xi’s alma mater. The company has been tryi...

Saudi Aramco's IPO Is Vulnerable to the Russians

In finance, as in comedy, timing is everything. Get it right and you have investors (or the audience) in the palm of your hand. Get it wrong and the ensuing silence is painful. Saudi Arabia has step...

November 12, 2019
World Business
[Eduardo Levy Yeyati] Argentina’s narrow path to common ground

Sunday’s victory in Argentina’s presidential elections was both impressive and underwhelming. True, Peronist challenger Alberto Fernandez soundly beat President Mauricio Macri. But not only did Ferna...

November 3, 2019
Viewpoints
[Tyler Cowen] How can California be left in the dark?

America continues to innovate wonderfully in cyberspace, but when it comes to solving actual, physical-world problems, its record is deteriorating. The fires in Northern California -- and the resulti...

October 30, 2019
Viewpoints
[Stephen Mihm] Wealth tax could deliver happiness dividend

When a study released earlier this month showed the wealthiest Americans paying a lower tax rate than any other group, Democratic presidential candidates embraced it as a proof that they were on the ...

October 29, 2019
Viewpoints
[Jonathan Bernstein] Why impeachment now?

I suspect that the group of people who didn’t favor impeaching and removing Donald Trump until they read the transcript of his July 25 phone conversation with Ukraine’s president is a very small grou...

October 28, 2019
Viewpoints
[Leonid Bershidsky] Moving Franco’s grave doesn’t make him any less of monster

The Spanish government on Thursday exhumed the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco, who died in 1975, from a mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid and took them to a city cemetery wh...

October 28, 2019
Viewpoints
SoftBank Seeks Majority Stake in WeWork With Bailout Deal

SoftBank Group Corp. offered to take a majority stake in WeWork, one of two rescue packages that the board of the troubled company is weighing, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal...

October 22, 2019
World Business
[Therese Raphael] Johnson has campaign slogan ready

There was very nearly a bedtime Brexit tale that went something like this: And so, finally, the porridge was just right, Parliament ate up Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal and then, satisfied, went to bed...

October 21, 2019
Viewpoints
[Noah Smith] Economics Nobel for three pragmatic poverty-fighters

This year’s economics Nobel prize went to three worthy economists: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Michael Kremer of Harvard University. The prize, ...

October 16, 2019
Viewpoints
[Shuli Ren] Elliott and Blackstone enter hostile territory in Japan

A small $1.5 billion company is attracting the biggest movers in finance in what’s shaping up as the first high-profile foreign hostile takeover in Japan. If successful, it could wake up the sleepy $...

October 15, 2019
Viewpoints
[Noah Smith] Five unpopular policies the US should adopt

Not every good policy is going to be popular. Sometimes either the public, activists or the commentariat -- or all three -- just get something wrong. This can happen for ideological reasons, or simpl...

October 14, 2019
Viewpoints
[Ramesh Ponnuru] Bad legal arguments against impeachment

Once again, Alan Dershowitz, a former Harvard Law School professor, is mounting a defense of US President Donald Trump against the threat of impeachment. In the past, Dershowitz has been willing to ...

October 13, 2019
Viewpoints
[Hal Brands] Singapore has some tough advice for US and China

These are fraught times for Asia-Pacific nations caught in the crossfire of the US-China rivalry. I recently wrote about how one longtime US ally, the Philippines, is repositioning itself between Was...

October 3, 2019
Viewpoints
[Daniel Moss] South Korea has a problem other countries can only dream of

South Korea’s economy is in a tough spot. Too bad the monetary policy response has been so tame. The country is flirting with outright deflation, figures Tuesday showed, as consumer prices declined ...

October 3, 2019
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