Business Columnists

Commentary Politicians of the world are nonchalant toward astronomical debt levels in every developed nation. They should pay closer attention to what bond markets are saying. Traders can see the ...

Coordinated global tariffs on China would protect U.S. and European jobs.

Evergrande’s rise and fall exposes the limits of communist China’s economic model.

The serious plight of middle-class Chinese households explains Beijing’s continual inability to boost consumer spending.

S&P 500 earnings momentum peaked in the second quarter and will decelerate in the upcoming quarters.

No one in China, except Beijing, seems to have any confidence in growth.

Fidelity International is reportedly the latest about to go.

Commentary President Donald Trump is considering a simple way to help America’s brutal housing market: Stop punishing people ...

Commentary What’s a little eavesdropping between friends? If only that were the case. China’s Long March Into US ...

Commentary Periods of geopolitical frustration often tempt nations into strategic overcorrections. Today, as some Western allies grow disillusioned ...

Commentary On Aug. 18, I met my friend at Pearson International Airport in Toronto. He is a Christian ...

The financial news media loves following the Fed and other central bankers at Jackson Hole. I am expecting ...

Commentary The national debt has now passed $40 trillion. It stands at 120 percent of gross domestic product ...

Commentary Over the past several days, bilateral trade talks between the United States and Canada have broken down. ...

Commentary The national debt just crossed $40 trillion, months ahead of schedule. For many Americans, though, that sentence lands with ...

An August roundup of official economic figures paints a sad picture of China’s once enviable economy—hardly a surprise.

China’s economy is in full deflationary mode and Beijing is making it worse.

When Washington cut off exports of advanced tech to China, Beijing was determined to build its own—but still ...

Commentary The latest inflation numbers were once again described as “cooling.” That seems to be the go-to word ...

Earnings remain strong, but perhaps the stock market has become a bit overbought in the near term, so ...

The urge to internationalize the yuan seems to have impelled Beijing to liberalize capital flows it had previously ...

We are in the middle of a strong earnings season, but the stock market is a bit overbought ...

For years now, Beijing has committed itself to increasing consumer spending and failed each time. It looks like ...

AI growth is constrained by memory and computing restrictions, as the backlog to build more data centers is ...

Trump has come back from last winter’s adverse Supreme Court ruling to levy a new round of tariffs, ...

Commentary "It's different this time." Few phrases have cost investors more money throughout history. Every generation believes that ...

Two U.S. models went rogue and an open-weight Chinese model 'saved' the day. The lesson is counterintuitive: tougher ...