Niall Ferguson

There are plenty of arguments against an Israeli attack on Iran. And all of them are bad.

The world's bottom billion is booming. But growth abroad may increase the income gap at home?

We need a wonk in the White House. Too bad the 'experts' are so often politically clueless.

GOP candidates denounce talk of inequality as 'class warfare.'

The political establishment gives us Saint Obama and Straight Mitt—that's why Sinner Newt is the one to beat.

Russia—who cares? With its rampant voter fraud and declining population, the country is careening toward irrelevance.

The Fed is working to prevent an economic calamity. Why do its critics seem eager to repeat the mistakes of 1931?

America is angry at elites. But Mitt Romney's business success makes him the best candidate by far.

Congress is poised to slash defense spending. Great idea—as long as China remains our buddy and the Middle East embraces brotherly love.

Can America withstand the death spiral of debt?

Has the U.S. deleted the very things that made it great? Niall Ferguson on how America can avoid imminent collapse.

The '1 percent' the protesters love to hate may just save our schools.

Talent doesn't cut it. Greatness requires freedom to be a weirdo. By Niall Ferguson.

Feel the chaos? Technology is feeding mind-boggling volatility everywhere.

As the Palestinians learned last week, the U.N. serves the interests of great powers. Just as it was meant to.

The U.S. is producing civilizational illiterates. How will they compete against America's global rivals?

Imagining what the world would look like today if the attacks had never happened.

The dictator's fall is proof that America can still topple a rogue regime.

Beijing has chastised the U.S. for fiscal recklessness, but it may be headed for its own economic collapse.

Whatever the rating agencies say, many in China believe the U.S. is no longer creditworthy.

It beggars belief that the GOP is willing to risk national default for the sake of antitax purity. By Niall Ferguson

Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies.

Why Republicans are wrong to put fiscal arithmetic ahead of global influence.

With Turkey flexing its muscles, we may soon face a revived Ottoman Empire.

Egypt's stock market is tanking and its rich are taking their money to Zurich. Will an economic plunge ruin the Arab Spring?

In bemoaning the pain of fiscal responsibility, the Democrats show they still haven't learned the lessons of Europe.

It is now 40 years since Kissinger went on his secret mission to China. Since then he has visited the country more than 50 times. And if there is one thing he has learned, it is this: the real fool's errand is to lean on the Chinese.

The Fed may deny it, but Americans know that prices are rising. Inflation is back.

Gold prices are up, but another metal connects the world—and reveals our economic future.

America finally comes to its senses and faces the fiscal facts.