Barrett Sheridan

Remember "decoupling"? It was the notion that emerging economies had detached themselves from the developed world, and that Asian consumers could make up for falling demand in the rich world.

What happens if Russia's and China's economies and governments lose their footing?

The great irony of the "buy American" clause snaking its way through the U.S. Congress is that it would force Americans to buy steel from factories that, while on U.S. soil, are owned mainly by foreigners.

In the last of our Davos series, we look at why much of the forecasted gloom has yet to come to pass.

Companies have long paid handsomely for reports and expertise on rising trends. Now Google is threatening this lucrative niche.

Five who are changing the face of the Internet.

OPEC, the once mighty oil cartel, is looking increasingly impotent. When prices skyrocketed to $150 a barrel, producers claim-ed they didn't have the spare capacity to pump more oil and bring the cost of crude back to earth.

Some point to Alan Greenspan. But his hands-off approach to the economy originated with Ayn Rand.

Sarah Palin may not have won the election, but she's a fave of Google users.

The conventional wisdom is that 'we all' borrowed too much before the crisis, but that's just not so.

It sounds like economic heresy, but many experts say more free trade won't ease the global crisis.

Seizing the Sirius Star was an audacious raid for Somalia's emboldened pirates.

The International Monetary Fund has roared back from irrelevancy, with a central role in the fight against the global credit contagion. Only poor debtor nations have doubts, because once again, the IMF is urging budget austerity on some borrowers, even as rich nations roll out eyepopping spending plans to fight recession.Already, Hungary and Ukraine have reluctantly tapped the fund for loans totaling $32 billion, in exchange for belt-tightening.

As the U.S. Presidential debates have shown, Barack Obama and John McCain can't agree on much. One rare exception: electronic health records. Obama has proposed spending $50 billion to help doctors and hospitals digitize their files and build patient databases.

It's a number no one questions, but the size of the derivatives market is not as shocking as it looks

The open-source movement worked wonders for software. Can it do the same for diabetes and other illnesses?

The credit crisis has taken many barons of Wall Street (and their $10,000 suits) to the cleaners. Who, though, has suffered the biggest losses? One way to get at that question is to look at leaders of the hardest-hit companies, and how much the value of their in-house shares has fallen from recent peaks.

Foreign universities are now starting to look beyond their borders when it comes time to hire a new boss.

Online communities of curious amateurs represent the future of business, says a new book.

Poor-country energy subsidies have inflated oil prices. Bringing them back to earth won't be easy.

Are you ready for social mapping?

An entrepreneur turned academic argues that to compete globally, American institutions should act more like Indian ones.

Universities are starting to look beyond their borders when it comes time to hire a new boss.

The average rental price is up 5 percent--down from the usual 10 or 15 percent, but still a long way from a crash.

'American dominance has been very short-lived,' says a U.K. defense expert, and pressing issues in the Middle East, Russia and elsewhere will test the capabilities of the next president.

Bolivia's feisty president believes there are ways to counter capitalism's impact on the climate and on food supplies.

An American pro-democracy worker discusses his post-election detention in Zimbabwe and what could happen in the next chapter of the nation's political drama.

A novel told exclusively through Google maps, another through images on Flickr—a publisher tries retelling novels in ways exclusive to the Web.

Ten Russia experts, from financiers to diplomats to Khrushchev's granddaughter, assess the legacy of Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. envoy to the Kosovo status talks explains the roots of Serbian rage.