NEW YORK — The world has finally awoken to the existential imperative of securing a rapid transition to a green economy. Finance will play a pivotal role in that process.

NEW YORK — It appears that the international community is moving towards what many are calling a historic agreement to set a global minimum tax rate on multinational corporations (MNCs).

NEW YORK — Slight increases in the rate of inflation in the United States and Europe have triggered financial-market anxieties.

NEW YORK  —  US President Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue plan to help the American economy recover from the pandemic.

NEW YORK — There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horrific).

NEW YORK — US President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to appoint Janet Yellen as the next secretary of the Treasury is good news for America and the world.

NEW YORK — Whereas Nero famously fiddled while Rome burned, US President Donald Trump has famously hit the links at his money-losing golf courses while California burns — and as more than 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 — for which he himself has now tested positive.

NEW YORK — For a while in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were high hopes for a V-shaped recovery.

NEW YORK — Julia Jackson, the mother of Jacob Blake, a young black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin, who was shot seven times in the back by police, got it right when she said, “America is great when we behave greatly.” Sadly, for the past four years, President Donald Trump has been l