The CNOOC episode is a relatively minor affair, but there is a risk that much more damage will be done in the future.

Free trade is alive and well among economists.

Financial capital, in a cash-dominated society, always wins over human capital.

The World Health Organization will continue to fall far short in treating the eminently treatable epidemics of the twenty-first century unless it brushes aside the protectionists and extremists.

Openness to trade and higher volumes of trade can have positive health benefits.

Under today's Congress, both multilateralism and free trade are at risk.

Shouldwe worry that Chinese want to buy one of our energy companies? Absolutely not. What we should worry about is the intervention of politicians into areas that are none of their business.

Despite the series of interest-rate cuts in store from the Fed, the U.S. economy is slowing down. New figures show unemployment rising and industrial production falling.