Could John Maynard Keynes fix Trump’s tariff crisis? This trade war is really a fight for the future of the dollar. By Robert Skidelsky Trump’s tariff bombardment has torn up the rules by which ...

In 1914, John Maynard Keynes wrote an almost triumphalist ode to globalization, just before that vision was dismantled by World War I and the subsequent Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US.

Cassidy’s cast includes Adam Smith, who found fault with colonialism and the slave trade, John Maynard Keynes, who highlighted the market system’s instability and lack of self-correcting mechanisms, ...

John Maynard Keynes famously said, “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” The point being that, even if you’re right about where the stock market is bound to go ...

The result would be a customs union like the one proposed by the economist John Maynard Keynes at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944. Parties to this agreement would be required to roughly balance ...

John Maynard Keynes famously said, “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” The point being that, even if you’re right about where the stock market is bound to go ...

John Maynard Keynes is often associated with government intervention, but his investment strategy reveals a die-hard capitalist, argues John Wasik. Debating the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes ...

Markets are notoriously unpredictable, propelled by “animal spirits,” as the economist John Maynard Keynes termed the irrational forces shaping investor behavior. You could look at the Dow or ...

Talk about remarkable economic coincidences. In 1925, exactly one hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes wrote an economic pamphlet entitled “The economic consequences of Mr. Churchill.” ...

At Bretton Woods, two key figures were the ones who drove the process. John Maynard Keynes, on behalf of the UK, and Harry Dexter White, on behalf of the USA. White’s insistence to ensure the ...

Migration boomed. The economist John Maynard Keynes, conjuring an Edwardian version of Amazon, recalled how “the inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed ...