Articles by Erin Slifka

Washington is ratcheting up pressure on Beijing’s 5G ambitions overseas, offering financial incentives and other enticements to countries willing to shun Chinese-made telecom gear.

Pandemic-related travel restrictions are disrupting U.S. companies that rely on foreign professionals or seasonal hires who can’t enter the U.S., further pinching an already tight labor market.

Americans Michael Taylor and Peter Taylor pleaded guilty in Tokyo to the charge of helping former Nissan Motor chief Carlos Ghosn escape Japan in a box aboard a private jet in late 2019.

Businesses around the world need chips but can’t find them. Making matters worse is that the typical problem solvers—chip brokers and middlemen—find themselves in some cases just as empty-handed.

Workers are deciding to take on new jobs and careers as the economy rebounds, spurning a return to business as usual. Some are burned out from extra pandemic workloads and stress, while others prefer the flexibility of remote work.

Even companies that have built domestic supply chains are running up against extreme shortages of goods and labor.

A slower recovery is forcing the region’s governments to extend loan-relief measures for already-indebted companies.

In the 1960s and 1970s, spiraling prices for staples like meat and gasoline wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy, thanks to political and policy mistakes that offer a warning for today.

The near-term finances of the Social Security program appear to have weathered last year’s recession better than many policy analysts had predicted, taking some pressure off the Biden administration and Congress to reach a long-term solution to keep them solvent.

As Western economies roar back to life, a fresh wave of Covid-19 clusters in Asia—where vaccination campaigns remain in their early stages—is creating new bottlenecks in the global supply chain.