One approach to this challenge is to limit banks to “safer” assets and to impose capital requirements. These are good ideas, but they don’t...

One vision is that governments and central banks will run these systems, making governments and central banks far more important in finance...

The obvious question is then whether people will decide to make these new arrangements permanent or return to the old.

The instinct is to save money, but if you have it, we’d all be better off if you spent it.

India could find itself in a situation much like that of the U.S. in 1900, when most American universities and scholars lagged behind those...

Imagine everyone having custom-made and custom-fitted clothing, perhaps with the aid of robot tailors, and readily available 3-D body scann...

Fed talks of ongoing rate hikes. Will a tighter monetary policy choke off a labor market recovery? Probably not.

Central banks shun bad publicity, and they don’t like to be “out there” ahead of the curve.

If you view the colonial period as a harmful aberration, you will tend to think India can catch up as it leaves these distortions behind.

Bill Gates is only one of many people in the tech world who have worried about automation and its threat to workers.

Big changes often start in small and inconspicuous ways, and it's entirely legitimate for the president to use his position to promote a br...

Opinions, and lawsuits, on whether it's too strict or not strict enough do not turn on what it actually says.

As our global population grows to nine billion another Green Revolution propelled by agricultural innovations will become imperative.

An economist at George Mason University and author of An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, Tyler Cowen discusses food s...

India needs to come up with new ideas to tackle its many current challenges and then to put the economy on a sustained high-growth trajecto...

Many investors fall easy prey to overconfidence. Find out how to rein it in to minimise your losses.

Pope's nudge to his flock to watch out for unholy ghosts lurking in free market is putting the fear of God in India's $50-bn outsourcing in...