This column was written by The Editors of the New Republic. In the brief weeks that Barack Obama has been president, the n-word has been heard with startling frequency in Washington. We're talking ...

Tyler Cowen makes the important point that when it comes to nationalization, nationalizing one bank isn’t the problem. The problem is that once you nationalize, or even start talking seriously about ...

There's been some teeth-gnashing in the liberal blogosphere over Ryan Lizza's New Yorker profile of Larry Summers, the general thrust of which is that he supposedly went too easy on Summers, ...

Matt Yglesias puts forward some of the current arguments for nationalizing insolvent banks; Paul Krugman and Felix Salmon are pushing a similar approach. Maybe, but I'm not yet convinced. It's easy ...

Felix Salmon, who has been banging the drums for the U.S. government to start nationalizing banks, cites a piece by the economist William Buiter as supporting the argument that the U.S. should ...

Patrice Motsepe works so hard to preserve his mystique that you’d be forgiven for thinking South Africa’s first black billionaire is a rather reticent man. He is anything but. An enigma perhaps, but ...

America remains deeply conflicted about federal regulators’ crisis response. By Neil Irwin The loan portfolio consists mostly of commercial real estate loans in Ireland and Britain but also includes ...

The discussion of government involvement in the light-speed adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has cast a brighter light on the conundrum between unbridled product innovation and risk—whether ...

The main issue regarding the Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA) company is the strategic approach. Prime Minister Nikol ...

I had a fascinating talk with a government official who will, sadly, have to go unnamed and undescribed. I wanted to know if the rumors are true and many in government see nationalization of the banks ...

In his Sunday news briefing on the coronavirus response, President Trump was asked about the Defense Production Act, which the government can use to spur businesses to create needed supplies. "The ...

DURING the Great War, the force of circumstances led the belligerent states to intervene directly in industry, in order to safeguard the production of essential supplies for war purposes. In some ...