Opinion

  2004: Tropical Storm Jeanne claims around 2,800 lives. 2010: Earthquake leaves more than 250,000 dead. 2016: Hurricane Matthew kills more than 800. Natural disasters have been visiting Haiti with alarming regularity (every six years). It has received massive foreign funding during these crises. But sadly, the foreign intervention has failed to build local capacity and assist masses in bringing …

  Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man, has been on a Hollywood shopping spree. As chief executive of the Wanda Group, he’s acquired Legendary Entertainment, producer of “Jurassic Park,” and is in talks to pay $1 billion for Dick Clark Productions, producer of the Golden Globes and other live television events. An earlier purchase, AMC Entertainment, recently announced plans to buy …

It’s election season, and that means it’s time for partisans to pose as economists and strategists in order to explain how much the markets support their favorite candidate (see this or this or this). It is an exercise fraught with a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives markets at best — or intellectual dishonesty at worst. So let’s get this out …

  Mark Gilbert The U.K. government has approved the country’s first hydraulic fracturing wells in the north of England, overruling the objections of the local council in Lancashire. It’s the correct decision given the nation’s growing energy needs; but rising opposition to fracking shows the nascent industry in the U.K. needs to do a better job of convincing the public …

  Brazilian bank workers are in a funk. Inflation is eating away at their salaries, even as banks are still making pretty good money in the face of Brazil’s recession. So on Sept. 6, tellers, clerks and other bank employees did what union bosses told them to do: They walked off the job. On Oct. 4, employees rejected a 7 …

  “I’d like to buy a new boomerang please. Also, can you tell me how to throw the old one away?” Never mind whether you think that joke is funny. Do you think your best friend would like it? You might think you know the answer; after all, people like each other partly because they make each other laugh. At …

  Globalization is clearly under attack, whether we look at trade flows or foreign direct investment. Part of the backlash against free-market policies that followed the 2008 financial crisis, protectionism has been on the rise: The irony is that the very forces that are now attacking globalization were historically its fiercest advocates. And the early pioneers of free trade would …

  The UAE is fast-tracking its transition towards green economy. It is taking a slew of measures that will pave the path for a development that has the least environmental impact and is sustainable. Real progress means taking a course in which economy and ecology complement each other. To achieve a low-carbon economy, it is imperative that the culture of …

  It’s the one opinion that Donald Trump and his opponents seem to share: America’s airports are so bad, it’s like “they’re from a third world country,” as Trump said in the first debate. Vice President Joe Biden used the same phrase to describe New York’s LaGuardia two years ago. Much of the flying public seems to roughly agree. The …

  The connection between the law of insider trading and the nature of the sibling relationship may not be immediately obvious — but the U.S. Supreme Court will consider it Wednesday in what may be one of the most interesting cases of a term that the justices have designed to be boring. Salman v. U.S. turns on whether one brother …