Tag: Economics

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said his country should reduce its dependence on trade with other countries, as the state faces a growing threat of economic sanctions. “We will ...

In The World’s Worst Bet, David Lynch sets out to explain what went wrong with globalization—an idea that was once the hope of a post-Cold War world for growth, prosperity, ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: A U.S.-Africa trade agreement expires, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda begin implementing a peace agreement, and Gen ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently announced that the United States would make a $20 billion swap line available to Argentina to help stabilize the country’s financial markets and the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision of how to make America great again has gotten a lot more geographically expansive, with the latest example a multibillion-dollar lifeline to an ideological ally ...

Europe has finally found the will and a way to tap frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine—sort of. On Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for the large-scale mobilization of ...

The European Union finally announced its latest package of proposed sanctions on Russia, after a week spent trying to satisfy nearly impossible demands by U.S. President Donald Trump for Europe ...

U.S. technology firms have spent an estimated $400 billion this year on AI infrastructure. That spending is estimated to increase to $3 trillion worldwide by 2028—raising questions about whether such ...

In Foreign Policy’s Fall 2025 print issue, economic historian Adam Tooze makes the case that with hindsight, the global development agenda of the last few decades seems like “an effort ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at British efforts to woo the Trump administration, a reboot of Canada-Mexico relations, and mass anti-austerity protests in France. Dodging Hardballs After ...