Daniel Altman

Ordinary Americans are about to find out why they call it the “resource curse.”

Could China and Hong Kong create a common currency?

Want to make progress on trade? Pay off the losers.

The eurozone will be forever crippled unless it becomes a real currency union -- like the United States.

South America's experience suggests a tantalizing possibility: that reaching $8,500 in income is the secret to sustainable growth.

What's lost in all the talk about America's debt problem.

Have America's big Internet companies become too powerful?

The politicians are playing a dangerous game with the global economy -- and with Americans' pocketbooks. But the voters get the last move.

From the U.S. deficit to Mideast turmoil, the issues that could have the biggest impact on the global economy in the coming year.

The world could learn a lot from Brazil's fight against poverty.

Britain embraced austerity instead of following the advice of its own economic giants. What was David Cameron thinking?

Will we even need central bankers in a few more years?