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Oct 31 20162 minutes
Gulf Rulers Try Fighting Deficits With Taxes
The United Arab Emirates will hire professionals to institute a VAT | “It seems unlikely that personal income taxes will be applied”
Oct 31 20161 minute
Tobacco Taxes Work—If They’re High Enough
Four states have referendums to raise cigarette taxes. The initiatives are worthwhile in three
Oct 31 20163 minutes
A Serious Pounding
The currency’s 18 percent drop since the vote reflects mounting fears of a hard exit | The pound is “the de facto official opposition of Brexit”
Oct 31 20165 minutes
The Toll Of Cheap Clothing
In April 2013, when the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh crumbled and killed more than a thousand garment workers, Western clothing executives were chastened. They were the ones, after all, who’d been pressuring Bangladesh’s apparel factories to che
Oct 31 20163 minutes
Advising On Tax Moves And Auditing Them, Too
Big Four firms do double duty as consultants for their clients | “It destroys the auditor’s ability to be objective”
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The Financial World’s Rotten Culture Is Still A Threat—To All Of Us
SOMETIMES IT TAKES A GROUP of economists to confirm reality. Last year, a team of German academics released a study on the effects of major financial crises on politics, examining 800 elections over 140 years in 20 advanced economies. They found that
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Obamacare: In Need Of Intensive Care, Or Terminally Ill?
IN A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE conspicuously devoid of substantive policy or civil agreement, there was one notable exception. By the end of the town-hall showdown on Oct. 9, it was clear both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton agreed that President Obama’s
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Who’s Picking Up The Education Tab?
THE PROBLEM of skyrocketing college costs is, by at least some measures, even worse than we thought. The total amount of outstanding student debt has roughly tripled in the past decade, creeping toward $1.3 trillion, and 1 in 10 borrowers is now eith
Oct 24 20167 minutes
The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Child-Care Problem
MEREDITH AND PAUL TWEED did their best to plan for parenting. They had successfully timed the birth of their first son, now 5, for the beginning of summer, since Meredith’s job as a university instructor did not offer paid maternity leave. When fall
Oct 24 20163 minutes
Where The Next Crisis Will Come From
Keep an eye on depressed lenders, shadow banks, and China
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Q&A: Roger Ferguson, CEO Of TIAA
Finding something to like about a low interest rate world
Oct 24 20164 minutes
The Slow-Motion Bust
This wasn’t the year the tech bubble popped, as a lot of people predicted. But the industry’s stratification into a few sure bets and everybody else isn’t helping guide us out of the iPhone era into whatever’s next
Oct 24 20161 minute
Hot Seat
Pedro Parente, the new chief executive officer of Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, has what is arguably the toughest job in the industry. He has to fix the company’s reputation, which was tarnished by the central role it played in the corrup
Oct 24 20163 minutes
China’s Housing Bubble Wobble
Officials struggle to manage an uneven boom
Oct 24 20163 minutes
Greenwich Lean Time
Too many hedge funds, too much money, and not enough ideas
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The Fading Financial Magic Of Reinsurance
Warren Buffett and other big investors love the business, but it’s ready for a shakeout
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Rooftop Solar Clouds Up
Can panel providers pivot from growth to profits?
Oct 24 20162 minutes
Pump It Like The Russians
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE THE BIGGEST CRUDE PRODUCER IN THE WORLD?
Oct 24 20161 minute
Under New Management
Can a former Wall Streeter spur growth?
Oct 24 20161 minute
What’s In Your Wallet?
A growing number of retailers look to strengthen ties with customers by melding loyalty programs with new mobile wallets.
Oct 24 20162 minutes
The ABCs Of India’s GST
A new consumer tax promises to simplify business
Oct 17 20161 minute
Why Deutsche Bank Is Spooking The Markets
“TOO BIG TO FAIL” IS BACK. A SERIES OF penalties for past misconduct at Deutsche Bank, one of the linchpins of the global financial system, is threatening to ravage shareholders, raising fears about what happens to trillions of dollars in complex fin
Oct 17 201615 minutes
Get Out
NEW YORK CITY LANDLORD STEVE CROMAN MASTERED THE DARK ART OF REPLACING LOW-INCOME TENANTS WITH RICH ONES. WITH RENTS SKYROCKETING, THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL WANTS TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM.
Oct 17 20164 minutes
Europe’s Startup Factory Sputters
Rocket opens me-too companies fast. Profits take longer | “The day and age of copying seems over”
Oct 17 20162 minutes
The World Owes Too Much Money
Companies in emerging markets stand out for their leverage | “Excessive private debt is a major headwind against” global growth
Oct 16 20161 minute
My Student Corey
“JUST AFTER TWO in the morning on August 7, a 17-year-old boy named Corey was shot in the head on the 300 block of East 130th Street in Chicago. The street where Corey was killed is a lonely one, tucked next to a water-treatment plant maybe six block
Oct 16 20161 minute
Easy Money
THE STORY OF THE ECONOMY in the Obama years is in many ways a tale of loose money. Back in the grim autumn of 2008, Chair Ben Bernanke took the most important weapon in his arsenal, the Fed-funds target rate, and slashed it all the way to zero—an unp
Oct 16 20162 minutes
The Original Sin Of The Wall Street Bailout
“NOBODY REALLY KNOWS why people didn’t go to jail. If you ask the Department of Justice, they might say, ‘We can’t charge people when we don’t have proof beyond a reasonable doubt.’ The fact is, the longer you take to investigate something, the more
Oct 10 20164 minutes
States Try To Save Retirement While Washington Waits
AN AMBITIOUS EFFORT TO CLOSE ONE of the biggest gaps in the American system of retirement saving is under way in California. Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is expected to sign into law a program that will provide retirement-savings coverage to the
Oct 10 20163 minutes
Wind Is The New Corn
In some of the poorest rural areas in the U.S., turbines are a fresh source of wealth | “Before, I raised corn and soybeans and cattle. Now I don’t. I’m a wind farmer”

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