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We need to ask a question, prompted by the Bob Dylan song, about globalization: Are the times a-changin’? I say that they are. After six months in Asia, advising at several policy institutes and ...

Deglobalization has been a recurring theme in macro research for over a decade, but according to a new note from TS Lombard, ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. On April 8, 2020, the Chinese government lifted its lockdown of Wuhan. It ...

Global trade is rapidly slowing after a rapid post-pandemic recovery in 2021 and 2022. Fitch Ratings said trade will expand 1.9% this year, down sharply from 2022's growth rate of 5.5%. That's due to ...

The spread of the coronavirus from China and all the damage it’s done to supply chains and worldwide travel are prompting a growing backlash against globalization. The critics include longtime ...

A COVID-19 antigen home test indicating a positive result are photographed in New York on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...

Dr. Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago and has written extensively about globalization’s first collapse. April 5, 2025 Before World War I, globalization was at a high point.