Economy & Finance

In the past, the balance of power went something like this: the Europeans ran the International Monetary Fund and the Americans headed up the World Bank. Now, with new emerging economic powers, Europe itself needing debt bailouts and the US…

Marta Dassù makes a very good point when she reminds us of the difficulty analysts and policy makers face in anticipating dramatic changes on the international scene. We are simply very bad at predicting the future. International affairs…

La settimana prima del discorso sullo Stato dell’Unione, la Camera dei Rappresentanti, insediatasi dopo la brillante vittoria repubblicana nelle elezioni di medio termine di novembre, ha “ripudiato” la riforma del sistema sanitario…

Le elezioni di midterm, nelle quali si è votato per rinnovare i 435 seggi della Camera dei Rappresentanti e un terzo di quelli del Senato (33 seggi, quest’anno 37 a causa di alcune vacancies inattese), sono considerate un referendum sul…

They were shunned and criticized as former President George W. Bush exited the White House. Then they seemed to simply disappear. But, almost two years later with the midterm elections just around the corner, key figures from the old…