Category: Global Economic Challenges

Panel: It Will Take Years for US, Europe to Break China’s Dominance in Critical Minerals

The United States and European Union nations must form alliances, reform regulations, streamline permitting, recycle materials, sift existing mines for discarded byproducts, and curry “social acceptance” for mining if they are to survive a “Cold War” over access to critical minerals that many say China has been waging for decades. “I think we have been…


Yellen Says Policymakers Improving Coordination on Global Economic Challenges

WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Friday that policymakers are improving coordination to tackle many of the challenges facing the global economy. “Inflation is elevated in many countries. Growth is slowing globally. We are also seeing swings in capital flows and strong movements in financial markets,” Yellen said in remarks prepared for delivery at a…