Commentary / World Oct 31, 2021

Why financial firms can’t be climate change cops

Trying to force an industry that’s designed to pursue profit to become the climate-change sheriff sounds a bit like foxes guarding henhouses.

Commentary / World Dec 17, 2020

All aboard the billionaires’ Bitcoin bandwagon?

A surge of 1,000% in 2017 took Bitcoin's value to $19,000. A year later, it had dropped to less than $3,500.

Commentary / World Sep 6, 2020

A currency war is the last thing the world needs

The Federal Reserve’s recent shift to an even more dovish stance looks set to exacerbate the dollar’s decline.

Business / Tech | Commentary Feb 5, 2020

Robots, including one by Sony, are coming for fund management jobs

Remember Aibo, the computerized dog Sony Corp. started selling in 1999 as the first personal robot? Hiro Mizuno, the chief investment officer of the Government Pension Investment Fund, does. So he asked Sony's computer science lab unit to build him a cyberhound using artificial ...

Commentary / World Jan 22, 2017

How space could trigger an economic crisis

The World Economic Forum's annual assessment of global risks, published this month, rates extreme weather events as the most likely risk to the world.

Commentary / World Jun 25, 2016

With all else failing, give rate hikes a try

In most walks of life, if what you're doing isn't working, you should try something else. In central banking, however, the strategy has been to do more of what isn't working.