Does the world need a Plaza Accord 2.0?

The last time the British pound flirted with dollar parity, Margaret Thatcher was prime minister. Over the past four decades, the pound has navigated several crises, but nothing has sent it as close to dropping below the $1 barrier as prime minister…

The Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev I knew was not the one known to most of the world—statesman, unwinder of the Cold War, Nobel Peace Prize winner. My Gorbi was an old romantic who, in 1993, in the midst of the chaos from the Soviet Union’s collapse,…

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Colombians head to the polls on Sunday (June 19) in a second-round presidential election that will mark a new direction for the country no matter the winner. The race between Gustavo Petro, the leftist former mayor of Bogotá and an ex guerilla, and…

Hi Quartz members, For people with money in crypto, it’s been a rough two weeks. Losses have topped $400 billion. The selloff, as you’ve probably heard, was triggered by the epic failure of stablecoin Terra and its crypto peg Luna, whose investors…

Update: On June 24, 2022 the US Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, writing that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.” Despite efforts to limit access to abortion, Roe v. Wade has preserved American women’s right to…

Despite efforts to limit access to abortion, Roe v. Wade has preserved American women’s right to terminate a pregnancy, a basic protection not available to many women around the world. If the US Supreme overturns the decision, as suggested by a…

A month into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s richest countries have ventured into a financial world war. Financial sanctions have been part of governments’ arsenal for decades, and it’s not the first time rich countries deployed them…

The recent volley of US sanctions against Russia is part of broad international campaign to force Vladimir Putin to withdraw from Ukraine. This kind of collective effort, however, is an exception. Since World War II, the US has been by far the…

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After decades of talk, Latin America is the closest it’s been to launching a regional space agency. Last autumn, 18 countries, including Mexico and Argentina, signed an agreement (pdf, Spanish) to create the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency,…

Just a few days into its third year, the covid-19 pandemic is setting new records. In Europe, daily cases had already soared well past their 2021 peak by late December, fueled by the omicron variant, and were growing exponentially in the US. Even in…

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Fewer immigrants are queuing up to become US citizens, but that doesn’t mean the line is getting any shorter. The number of naturalization applications fell by more than 70,000 in the first three months of 2018, compared with the same period in 2017,…

Countries accounting for 90% of the global economy hammered out an agreement to set a minimum corporate tax rate across the world. The deal’s minimum 15% corporate tax rate represents years of stop-and-start negotiations to deter multinationals from…

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