Two Views On A Wealth Tax

Will a U.S. wealth tax make the economy less dynamic? Or would it make Americans happier?

Mexico's Pemex Problem

National pride in the state-owned oil company helped elect a populist president. A year later, his plans for Pemex aren’t satisfying investors or citizens

Guo Shuqing Has The Toughest Job In Global Finance: Taming China's Gargantuan Banking System

WALKING A $40 TRILLION TIGHTROPE

Getting Comfortable With Chaos

Can Doyne Farmer’s scientific bag of tricks help economists and central bankers better understand the nature of risk?

The Woman Trying To Shake Up Israel's Financial System

Israel is known for tech innovation, but its banks have a lot of catching up to do.

A Tech Veteran's Search For Green Fields

Ben Rosen has had several careers—technology analyst, early venture capitalist, entrepreneur—any one of which would have made him notable.

Nigeria's Missing Mobile Banking App

Every Month, Ifeyinwa Abel, the secretary of a Pentecostal church in Lagos, spends as much as a quarter of her salary sending money to pay for diabetes drugs to her mother 430 miles away in Abia Ohafia, a small agricultural village.

Paytm's Sharma Is Ready To Take On The World

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, 41, founded closely held One97 Communications and its brand Paytm (rhymes with ATM) almost two decades ago.

Fish Farms Are Now Hosting Almost 9% of China's Solar Power Panels

Workers at a solar farm outside Yueyang City on July 2. Panels are installed at a height that allows fishery vessels to pass underneath.

Coal Won't Die In Pakistan And China!

As this vast mine in Pakistan’s Thar Desert attests, the world’s No. 1 cause of carbon emissions will be a major source of electricity for decades, despite the outcry against it

Big Money Takes A New Approach To Climate Change Activism

Earlier this year, one of Meryam Omi’s deputies at Legal & General Investment Management sat down with board members and managers from Exxon Mobil Corp. to discuss how the oil giant could address climate change.

Nasdaq's Adena Friedman On IPOs, Unicorns, And Roundhouse Kicks

Nasdaq’s Adena Friedman On IPOs, Unicorns, And Roundhouse Kicks

Run The Canadian Rockies

Take a powerful new Ferrari through Alberta’s BanffNational Park

Private Equity Wants You To Feel Good About Investing

AT LESS THAN 3 inches long from head to tail, the dunes sagebrush lizard is in the running for meekest creature on earth.

When Should a College Divest? Michigan State Is Working Out an Answer

POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SET their sights on Michigan State University last fall.

Building A New New York

NEW YORK IS A CITY of icons, and nowhere is its iconography more apparent than at the nexus of real estate and Wall Street.

Would You Buy 7 Percent Bonds From This Guy?

LUIS CAPUTO IS GETTING frustrated with the bond market.

Mark Carney: 'Within Nine Months, We Could Have A Disorderly Brexit Stress Test'

Mark Carney seemed revolutionary enough in 2013 when he became the first non-British citizen to be appointed governor of the Bank of England. But the 53-year-old has since had to contend with a much greater upset: the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union. Now he reveals that he spends half his time preparing the financial system and economy for Brexit, which takes effect in March. Born in Canada’s remote Northwest Territories and educated at a public school in Edmonton, Carney graduated from Harvard and Oxford before working at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the Canadian finance ministry. In early 2008 he became the eighth governor in the Bank of Canada’s history, winning praise for his quick reaction as the financial crisis developed. He succeeded Mario Draghi as chairman of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in 2011, becoming the point man on global financial system reform. At the Bank of England, Carney has juggled Brexit, negotiating new regulatory standards, and adapting the 324-year-old institution to its expanded supervisory responsibility. As the BOE’s 120th governor, he says some disruption was in order. “You don’t need an outsider all the time, but at the time it helped.” 

Yes, But Do You Know Any Women?'

These three women are the first female global chief economists at the banks they work for. But don’t break out the Champagne just yet

The New Keynesian' Fed

The U.S. central bank’s new leaders developed an economic model from the inflation lessons of the 1980s. But is it right for today?

Natalie Jaresko: ‘Don't Waste A Crisis'

Natalie Jaresko, who’s helping manage Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy process, knows more than most about the risks government borrowers can face.

China By The Red Sea

Djibouti needed help. China had money. This is what happened next.

Yngve Slyngstad: “We Have A Higher Risk Tolerance”

Norway’s clout in financial markets far outweighs its economy, which is about a 10th the size of Germany’s.

The Case Of Malaysia's Missing Money

The near collapse of a state-owned company has rocked the government, rattled investors, and stirred public outrage.

How Goldman Sachs Became A Tech-Investing Powerhouse

The inside story of how - and why - Goldman Sachs became a tech-investing powerhouse.

Deal Man In The Stans

Private equity investor Aidan Karibzhanov is chasing riches in the rough-and-tumble former Soviet Republics of Central Asia.

The Chinese Are Skipping Cash For Fintech

The Chinese are skipping straight from cash to digital finance.

Jeff Tannenbaum's Next Act Will Be Green

Jeff Tannenbaum made his fortune through investing; now he’s investing that fortune.

For Meridiam's Thierry Deau, Assets Mean Airports And Tunnels

THIERRY DEAU’S ENGINEERING training in France led him early in his career to building government-funded infrastructure.

He Just Won't Stop Betting On A Crash

RUSSELL CLARK’S ENTRY into the high-stakes world of investing could hardly have been less promising.