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The Geopolitical Impact of Cheap Oil

Fear of immigration is no reason for Britain to leave Europe

The Global Consequences of Russia’s Isolation

Russia Presses Ahead With Plan for Gas Pipeline to Turkey

But in recent weeks, the Russian state-owned company Gazprom has shown signs that it is serious about proceeding with what it calls Turkish Stream.

Gazprom’s chief executive recently made it clear that Turkey is its new focus — and that if Europe wants more Russian gas then it will need to find its own way to tap into it.

At the Time Warner Center, anEnclave of Powerful Russians

Labor’s Digital Displacement

Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds

The subcommittee said that Apple had “exploited a difference between Irish and American tax residency rules” but had not broken any laws.

Among the ideas under consideration are strict rules for defining where a company has a permanent presence and measures to limit the practice of so-called transfer pricing — the shunting of profits and losses between subsidiaries by disguising them as internal corporate payments for goods or, as is increasingly common, for copyright or patent royalties.

Are the Long-Term Unemployed on the Margins of the Labor Market?

Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation

Founder of Alibaba Jack Ma Interview by Charlie Rose

There are successful plants harvesting heat from deep hot rock in Australia, Europe and Japan,

The generating capacity by 2050 could be 100 billion watts, about 10 percent of the country’s current generating capacity

Person of the year: Jack Ma

Are National Champions Really Winners?

Although the proportion of imported intermediate goods in German manufacturing exports has risen from around 19% to 30% since 1995, the globalization of value chains during this period has improved competitiveness, and dramatically increased manufacturing value.

Insight: Brazil's iPhone investment falls short on promises of jobs, lower prices