He will also meet Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong. A highlight of Zoellick’s visit to Singapore will be a keynote address to The Economist magazine’s World Oceans Summit on Friday, February 24, to present...

Economist is not a fan of Dodd-Frank. The magazine’s latest complaints are familiar ones: the law is too bloated, impossibly complex, and burdensome to both banks and the economy at large. But the Economist also admits that it’s not just federal...

19, 2012, 8:05 am By MALAVIKA VYAWAHARE The Asia-Pacific Regional Millennium Development Goals report, released on Friday, ranks India as one of the poorest performers in terms of hunger, and The Economist asks the big question: “Why do so many people...

“The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulations.” While the magazine focuses much of its discussion on complying with the Dodd-Frank finance law, every criticism made about financial over-regulation could be...

In the latest issue of The Economist magazine, the editors warn, "The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and badly written regulations." While the magazine focuses much of its discussion on complying with the Dodd-Frank finance law,...

The protests were inspired by popular revolts that brought down the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya last year. Talib was appointed minister in an interim government that was sworn in on Dec. 10 to oversee a two-year transition that is expected to...

Therefore we will have to have a house to live in. Q. The Economist Magazine last month launched a weekly section devoted to China, the first time the magazine says since 1942 that it has singled out a single country for scrutiny. The Economist listed...

I’d like to ask you a few more questions about your efforts to help develop Shenzhen. We’ve read that there have been protests in China when people have been removed from their homes and farms to make way for development. The Economist also reported...

The Economist, however, has been able to post record profits over the last four years. The company reported a 9 percent increase in revenue to ¤£347 million and a 10 per cent increase in operating profit to £63 million in the financial year ended March...

CTV reports, : A popular savings program created by the federal Conservatives is exacerbating the fiscal pressure on public pension benefits -- even as the government prepares to scale back benefits. You don't get a tax deduction when you put your money...

Economist this week deals with the regulatory labyrinth of the Dodd-Frank act. It put me in mind of the regulation of my dusty corner of the financial services industry. We stockbrokers, managing money and advising clients on stocks, shares,...

The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, Roger McShane critiques a recent blog post I wrote about both a) Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s appearance before the House Budget Committee (where he now infamously told Chairman Paul Ryan “We’re not...

The Washington Post's Lori Montgomery asked why the projected debt had swelled by $1 trillion since September. Zients spoke about "differences in economic assumptions." But that didn't hold up, because The Economist's Greg Ip pointed out that the White...

Inspired by Ian Bremmer’s provocatively titled The End of the Free Market, the report proclaimed that “The era of free-market triumphalism has come to a jarring halt,” and cited state capitalism’s claim to the “most successful big economy” – China’s –...

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Whole reports have been [PDFs] written on why that number is bogus. Our economy is still recovering from a tremendous collapse largely caused by under-regulation of financial institutions. But in its group of articles, The Economist wants us to think...

AMERICANS love to laugh at ridiculous regulations. A Florida law requires vending-machine labels to urge the public to file a report if the label is not there. The Federal Railroad Administration insists that all trains must be painted with an “F” at...

The article suggested that with the growing sophistication and deployment of armed drones, expensive manned aircraft increasingly made less and less sense. All the expensive and heavy equipment required for pilots to be inside the aircraft drove up the...

-David Brooks, New York Times "Mr. Bremmer... provides a wide-ranging account of the rise of state capitalism and he litters his prose with apposite examples and acute insights. Nobody with a serious interest in the current dilemma should pass it by." ...